Full Description
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.
Contents
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
