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Food Studies
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Or could it be that there is something about globalisation itself that produces local culture, and promotes the constant formation of new forms of local identity, dress, cuisine, music, dance and language?
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― Home Cooking in the Global Village: Caribbean Food from Buccaneers to Ecotourists
― Home Cooking in the Global Village: Caribbean Food from Buccaneers to Ecotourists
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Only from our position of power can we afford to ignore where things really come from, because we know that all things drain, like syrup through a pipeline, from the edges of the world into the centre. What we want will appear, as if by magic, on the shelves of our supermarkets because were have the money to pay for it. We don’t have to know - other people grow it and process it, and buy it and sell it until all we see is the brand, a language we understand without effort. All those strange subs
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― Home Cooking in the Global Village: Caribbean Food from Buccaneers to Ecotourists
― Home Cooking in the Global Village: Caribbean Food from Buccaneers to Ecotourists
Searching for scholarship on food and literature, it might seem that few texts exist and many re…more
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