Food around the World or Butterflies of the Night

Food Around the World: A Cultural Perspective

Author: Margaret McWilliams

Appreciation and understanding of cultures around the world is one of the challenging goals of this brand new book. Food is featured prominently because of its universal appeal and the meaningful ways that geography, climate, economics, and religion have combined with history and culture to define the ingredients and food patterns unique to countries and regions around the world. In addition, the book provides readers with a sound fundamental knowledge of the world's nations and the uniqueness of today's rich cultural patterns. Offers readers recipes, maps, and photographs from such regions of the world as the British Isles, Scandinavia, Italy, Greece, Turkey, India, Southeast Asia, China, South America, and the Caribbean. For clinical dieticians and administrative dieticians in hospitals.

Table of Contents:

I. INFLUENCES ON FOOD AROUND THE WORLD.

1. Food Origins and History.
2. Cultural Landscapes.
3. Religions and Food.

II. EUROPE—ROOTS OF OUR AMERICAN CUISINE.

4. British Isles.
5. Scandinavia.
6. Central Europe.
7. Eastern Europe.
8. Italy.
9. France.

III. ENRICHED BY THE MEDITERRANEAN SPHERE.

10. The Iberian Peninsula.
11. Greece, Turkey, and the Levant.
12. North Africa.

IV. HERITAGE FROM SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA.

13. West Africa.
14. East and South Africa.

V. FOOD TREASURES FROM THE ORIENT AND PACIFIC.

15. India and Its Neighbors.
16. Southeast Asia and Its Islands.
17. China.
18. Korea.
19. Japan.

VI. LATIN AMERICAN FLAVORS.

20. South America.
21. The Caribbean.
22. Central America and Mexico.

VII. AMERICA'S FOOD SCENE TODAY.

23. Who is Eating What?
24. Diet Counseling in Our Cultural Milieu.
Glossary.
Index.

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Butterflies of the Night: Mama-sans, Geisha, Strippers, and the Japanese Men They Serve

Author: Lisa Louis

Examines the high-class world of exclusive bar hostesses & their traditional counterparts, the Geisha. Exposes the special kind of sleaze of what is known in Japan as the ejaculation industry & discusses the experiences & special problems of foreign women in Japan, both white Europeans & Southeast Asian — who increasingly play a large role in Japans world of night time entertainment. The interviews allow the denizens of the mizu shobai to speak eloquently for themselves. Provides an intimate & vivid picture of a part of Japan few foreigners ever see, but which they must confront to understand Japanese culture & the Japanese as they really are.