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Muscovy Ducks

Daniel W. Gade

Daniel W. Gade

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The Cambridge World History of Food

© Cambridge University Press, 2000

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...Of the two species of domesticated anatines, the Muscovy duck (Cairina moschata) is larger, less vocal, and characterized by a fleshy protuberance on the head of the male. It is a duck of tropical American origin, whose wild ancestors...

Native Americans

Melanie Haupt

Melanie Haupt

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Food Cultures of the World Encyclopedia Volume 2 : The Americas

© ABC-Clio Inc, 2011

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...Overview The term Native American encompasses an extremely broad spectrum of peoples spread across the various regions of the United States; it is therefore impossible to speak of Native Americans...

Extract from Diet, Health and Status among the Pasión Maya: A Reappraisal of the Collapse

Lori E. Wright

Lori E. Wright

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Food History: Critical and Primary Sources : Classical and Postclassical Eras

Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

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...The results of paleodietary and paleopathological investigations in the Pasión provide little support for models that emphasize environmental pressures in the collapse of Classic Maya society. Bone chemical data indicate that Pasión diets...

Aruba and Bonaire

Dorette Snover

Dorette Snover

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Food Cultures of the World Encyclopedia Volume 2 : The Americas

© ABC-Clio Inc, 2011

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...Overview Procuring salt, conducting the slave trade, and establishing ports of trade—rather than developing sugar plantations—were the goals of the Dutch explorers who made the six islands...

Beans, Peas, and Rice in the Eastern Caribbean

Riva Berleant

Riva Berleant

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Rice and Beans : A Unique Dish in a Hundred Places

Berg, 2012

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...Introduction The partnership of grass and pulse in human diets is ancient. In the Old World, wild forms of grasses and pulses were important foods even before they were domesticated. The domestication of wheat, barley, and lentils...

Information and Democracy in the Global Coffee Trade

Daniel Reichman

Daniel Reichman

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Food Activism : Agency, Democracy and Economy

Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

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...For over twenty years, the global coffee trade has been a focal point for food activism. From fair trade to organics to sustainability programs like shade-grown and bird-friendly certification, the coffee sector has been the locus of novel...

Defending National Foodways

Theresa Preston-Werner

Theresa Preston-Werner

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Rice and Beans : A Unique Dish in a Hundred Places

Berg, 2012

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...Gallo pinto, the quotidian Costa Rican breakfast dish of rice and beans, appears mundane, both to those who eat it daily and to those who regard it as one among many unmarked elements that constitute the landscape of Costa Rica. The Spanish...

Grenada

Paul Crask

Paul Crask

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Rosemary Parkinson

Rosemary Parkinson

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Food Cultures of the World Encyclopedia Volume 2 : The Americas

© ABC-Clio Inc, 2011

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...Overview Grenada is located in the eastern Caribbean at the southernmost tip of the Windward Islands between Saint Vincent and the Grenadines to the north and Trinidad and Tobago to the south. The nation...

All in One Pot

Carla Guerrón Montero

Carla Guerrón Montero

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Rice and Beans : A Unique Dish in a Hundred Places

Berg, 2012

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...Introduction Shared ideologies of food preference are fundamental for national and subnational identities. Food preference is a socially constructed concept in which both consumers and producers define what is “good to eat” (Smith...

The Caribbean, Including Northern South America and Lowland Central America: Early History

William F. Keegan

William F. Keegan

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The Cambridge World History of Food

© Cambridge University Press, 2000

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...In writing the history of culinary practices, there is a tendency to emphasize the ethnic character of diets (González 1988). Yet nowhere are historical entanglements more apparent than in the international character of modern cuisine, even...