Bigger Fish to Fry

A Theory of Cooking as Risk, with Greek Examples
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-80073-223-0
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 3, 142 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 350 g

Reihe: New Anthropologies of Europe: Perspectives and Provocations

What defines cooking as cooking, and why does cooking matter to the understanding of society, cultural change and everyday life? This book explores these questions by proposing a new theory of the meaning of cooking as a willingness to put oneself and one’s meals at risk on a daily basis. Richly illustrated with examples from the author’s anthropology fieldwork in Greece, Bigger Fish to Fry proposes a new approach to the meaning of cooking and how the study of cooking can reshape our understanding of social processes more generally.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sutton, David E.

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften: Ernährung & Gesellschaft
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Ökotrophologie (Ernährungs- und Haushaltswissenschaften)
• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Kochen, Essen, Trinken
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Sachkultur, Materielle Kultur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction: In the Dangerous Kitchen

Chapter 1. How People Cook, While Thinking, for Example

Chapter 2. “That’s Not Cooking!” Human Creativity or Mechanical Reproduction?

Chapter 3. “To Steal a Bad Hour from Death.” Subjective Risk and Contingent Temporalities in the Greek Kitchen

Conclusion: Take the Risk

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Sutton, David E.
David E. Sutton has been teaching at the department of Anthropology, Southern Illinois University Since 1999. He has been a Full Professor since 2011. Key Publications include Secrets from the Greek Kitchen (California Series in Food and Culture, 2014), and Remembrance of Repasts (Berg, Materializing Culture Series, 2001).