Changing Food Habits

Introduction; Changing Food Habits: An Introduction, Carola Lentz; 1. In Praise of the Simple Meal: African and European Food Culture Compared, Gerd Spittler; 2. Cassava, The Lazy Man's Food? Indigenous Agricultural Innovation and Dietary Change in Northwestern Zambia (ca. 1650-1970), Achim von Oppen; 3. The Cook, His Wife, the Madam and Their Dinner: Cooking, Gender and Class in Zambia, Karen Tranberg Hansen; 4. Changing Patterns of Food Consumption in Central Kordofan, Sudan, Joachim Theis; 5. Food Aid in Peru: Refusal and Acceptance in a Peasant Community of the Central Andes, Leticia Delgado; 6. Tasty Meals and Bitter Gifts: Consumption and Production in the Ecuadorian Andes, M. J. Weismantel; 7. Alcohol Consumption between Community Ritual and Political Economy: Case Studies from Ecuador and Ghana, Carola Lentz; 8. The Porridge Debate: Grain, Nutrition, and Forgotten Food Preparation Techniques, Elisabeth Meyer-Renschhausen; 9. The Rationing System, Food Policy, and Nutritional Science During the Second World War: A Comparative View of Switzerland, Jakob Tanner; 10. Plurality of Taste: Food and Consumption in West Germany During the 1950s, Michael Wildt; 11. Mc Kebap: Doner Kebap and the Social Positioning Struggle of German Turks, Ayse S.aglar; Index;