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Thu, 05/08/2008 - 15:20 — katina.strauch
"Food for Thought: Essays on Reading and Culture" edited by Lawrence C. Rubin, foreword by John Shelton Lawrence. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2008. 9780786435500. 307 p. $35 softcover
This work brings together voices from a wide rante of disciplines, providing a fascinating feast of scholarly perspectives on food and eating practices, contemporary and historic, local and global. And in the afterword "Everything I Need to Know About Food, Eating, and Culture, I Learned from Tupperware," by Lawrence C. Rubin (the editor) is a brief look at a history of the storage unit that was once ubiquitous.
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