Home Cooking in the Global Village: Caribbean Food from Buccaneers to Ecotourists
Richard R. Wilk
Top 10 Best Quotes
“How fragile is a world so connected and tied together that a change in food fashion in one place can lead to starvation halfway through the world?”
“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 substances are fuzed together for our convenience, our health, our pleasure.”
“Food is also the stuff of international politics, and the power of one country to control the daily bread of another has always been politically important.”
“There is no culture where everyone cooks in the same way.”
“The world becomes a pageant of diversity with its differences neatly organised and selected.”
“The inevitable result of any search for authenticity is that you always end up with something completely modern in intent, since the purpose of the performance lies in the present, not the past.”
“The idea that foods and diets will “just mix” when they come into contact is clearly a vast oversimplification.”
“People want to think of a food tradition as something that would continue unchanging and timeless, unless some outside force knocked things askew.”
“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?”
“I find it fascinating that this bottle is so cosmopolitan, a true multicultural brew, but it is so quiet about it.”
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