Rice and Beans: A Unique Dish in a Hundred Places ebook

by Livia Barbosa,Richard Wilk

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Richard Wilk, Livia Barbosa. Rice and Beans is a book about the paradox of local and global. On the other hand, in every place people insist that rice and beans is a local invention, deeply rooted in a particular history and culture.

Richard Wilk, Livia Barbosa. On the one hand, this is a globe-spanning dish, a simple source of complete nutrition for billions of people in hundreds of countries. How can something so universal also be so particular? The authors of this book explore the specific history of the versions of rice and beans beloved and indigenous in cultures from Brazil to West Africa.

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Wilk, Richard . arbosa, Lívia. Wilk, Richard . eds. Rice And Beans: A Unique Dish In A Hundred Places. Ed. (2012) Rice and beans :a unique dish in a hundred places London : Berg Publishers, MLA Citation. London : Berg Publishers, 2012. These citations may not conform precisely to your selected citation style. Please use this display as a guideline and modify as needed.

While rice and beans represents an absolute expression of local culture across the places investigated, the presence and pervasiveness of the dish cannot be isolated from the economic and cultural forces of globalization. A variety of legumes are native to the Americas; as such, the presence of certain domesticates in the fields and on the dinner plates (or breakfast plates, in the case of Costa Rica) of many households in this region is partially easily explainable. However, the widespread presence of rice in this everyday cuisine is a different story.

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Rice and Beans: A Unique Dish in a Hundred Places

Rice and Beans: A Unique Dish in a Hundred Places. For instance, the distribution of similar rice-and-bean foodways-from Africa, through Cuba, Jamaica, the Eastern Caribbean, Brazil, Guyana, Panama, Costa Rica, Belize, Mexico, and New Orleans- maps closely onto the general culture area that has been called the Black Atlantic.

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In Rice and Beans: A Unique Dish in a Hundred Places, ed. Richard Wilk and Livia Barbosa, 2012. Round around the Earth: Circumnavigation from Magellan to Orbit.

Rice and Beans: A Unique Dish in a Hundred Places more. Wilk combines a wealth of detail on agricultural calendars, hunting practices, land tenure, and labor exchanges in a general interpretation of cultural and ecological transformation. He provides a comprehensive analysis of how tropical farmers survive in the difficult rainforest environment, tracing the ingenuity and adaptability of Mayan culture.

Rice and Beans is a book about the paradox of local and global. On the one hand, this is a globe-spanning dish, a simple source of complete nutrition for billions of people in hundreds of countries. On the other hand, in every place people insist that rice and beans is a local invention, deeply rooted in a particular history and culture. How can something so universal also be so particular?

The authors of this book explore the specific history of the versions of rice and beans beloved and indigenous in cultures from Brazil to West Africa. But they also plumb the shared African, Native American and European trans-Atlantic encounters and exchanges, and the contemporary forces of globalization and nation-building, which combine to make rice and beans a powerful substance and symbol of the relationship between food and culture.

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Many people will recognise rice and beans as a dish that features in their favourite ethnic cuisine, possibly with a slightly different name but nonetheless the dish being principally rice and beans. Many will swear that this dish originated from their country and that everyone else adapted it along the way. What is the truth? Does it matter?

This is an academically-focussed collection of essays looking at various aspects of rice and beans, a meal that is very popular in a broad area encompassing Western Africa, the Caribbean and North, South and Central America. Various theories are espoused as to how two simple staple items could be unique in their own right yet combined into a "different" dish shared by many countries, such as a common history, links to slavery and other trades. Even historical events, such as a fleeing Portuguese prince seeking refuge in Brazil who needed to find how to quickly and affordably feed an army, are shown as a key introducer to the dish for a whole new country.

Clearly this book is not going to be for everyone, yet it need not be solely confined to those who study matters such as food science, anthropology or history. The essays are capable of being enjoyed by a "generalist" as well as each essay is totally independent to each other, linked only by a common theme. For those who require the detail there is, as one would expect, a mass of bibliographic references for further research.

One cannot give a universal recommendation to this book through no fault of its own. You won't get a lot of recipes or be a better cook, but you will be more informed and knowledgeable after reading it. If it matches you interests or needs then it will deliver!

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