Twitty does an excellent job following the arc of rice and recipe development in the South, but I'm personally excited to explore the West African rice dishes in the Deep Origins chapter.Īmong the staple foods most welcomed on southern tablesand on tables around the worldrice is without question the most versatile. Rice and beans : a unique dish in 100 places.A very comprehensive book that connects the old world staple crop that built the richness of the old South with a new world recognition and appreciation of all of the immigrant communities that have made Southern cuisine so diverse, evocative, and delicious. But they also plumb the shared African, Native American and European trans-Atlantic encounters and exchanges, and the contemporary forces of globalization and nation-building, which combine to make rice and beans a powerful substance and symbol of the relationship between food and culture'. How can something so universal also be so particular? The authors of this book explore the specific history of the versions of rice and beans beloved and indigenous in cultures from Brazil to West Africa. On the other hand in every place people insist that rice and beans is a local invention, deeply rooted in a particular history and culture. On one hand, this is a globe-spanning dish, a simple source of complete nutrition for billions of people in hundreds of countries. 'Rice and Beans is a book about the paradox of local and global. Higman - 5.Beans, Peas, and Rice in the Eastern Caribbean / Riva Berleant - 6.Rice and Beans, Beans and Rice: The Perfect Couple / Livia Barbosa - 7.Beyond Rice Neutrality: Beans as Patria, Locus, and Domus in the Brazilian Culinary System / Carlos Alberto Doria - 8.Cookup Rice: Guyana's Culinary Dougla and the Performance of Guyanese Identities / Gillian Richards-Greaves - 9.All in One Pot: The Place of Rice and Beans in Panama's Regional and National Cuisine / Carla Guerron Montero - 10.Defending National Foodways: Laying Claim to Tradition in Costa Rica / Theresa Preston-Werner -Ĭontents note continued: 11.Nationalizing the Ordinary Dish: Rice and Beans in Belize / Richard Wilk - 12.Rice and Beans, a Staple on Even the Most Respectable Mexican Tables / Mari-Jose Amerlinck - 13.Red Beans and Rebuilding: An Iconic Dish, Memory, and Culture in New Orleans / David Beriss - 14.Conclusions / Sidney Mintz. Twitty - 3.The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same: Rice and Beans in Modern Cuba / Anna Cristina Pertierra - 4.Jamaica Coat of Arms: Rice and Peas / B. Machine generated contents note: 1.A Unique Dish in a Hundred Places / Livia Barbosa - 2.The Transnational Dish of the Motherland: The African Roots of Rice and Beans / Michael W.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Xii, 282 pages : illustrations, maps 24 cm

Rice michael twitty