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Empty Pleasures: The Story of Artificial Sweeteners from Saccharin to Splenda

Empty Pleasures: The Story of Artificial Sweeteners from Saccharin to Splenda GaStroNomica indeed, from coffee drinking rituals in Ethiopia to coming to terms with noshing on guinea pigs in Peru, tasting termites in Western Kenya to an obsessive quest to procure the prized durian fruit in Malaysia, the reader is offered a glimpse into several culinary cultures that most will never have the chance to experience firsthand . Lidia Marte's "msg and Sugar: Dilemmas and Tribulations of a `Native' Ethnographer" examines the use of additives in Dominican cooking in New York City, and Susan L . Johnston's "Eating with the Blackfeet: Who's Been Eating Whose Food?" is the result of extensive study of eating habits in the Blackfoot Nation . Though it is easy to become excited by the exotic, I am enthralled by the all too rare look into our American backyard, in which there exists astonishing diversity . The back cover of the book reads: "The main readership of Adventures in Eating will be students in anthropology and other scholars, but the explosion of food media gives the book additional appeal for fans of No Reservations and Bizarre Foods on the Travel Channel ." Part of what makes those shows so appealing is not simply the Emmy http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Gastronomica University of California Press

Empty Pleasures: The Story of Artificial Sweeteners from Saccharin to Splenda

Gastronomica , Volume 12 (1) – Apr 1, 2012
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University of California Press
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© 2012 The Regents of the University of California. All Rights Reserved.
Subject
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ISSN
1529-3262
eISSN
1533-8622
DOI
10.1525/GFC.2012.12.1.116
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GaStroNomica indeed, from coffee drinking rituals in Ethiopia to coming to terms with noshing on guinea pigs in Peru, tasting termites in Western Kenya to an obsessive quest to procure the prized durian fruit in Malaysia, the reader is offered a glimpse into several culinary cultures that most will never have the chance to experience firsthand . Lidia Marte's "msg and Sugar: Dilemmas and Tribulations of a `Native' Ethnographer" examines the use of additives in Dominican cooking in New York City, and Susan L . Johnston's "Eating with the Blackfeet: Who's Been Eating Whose Food?" is the result of extensive study of eating habits in the Blackfoot Nation . Though it is easy to become excited by the exotic, I am enthralled by the all too rare look into our American backyard, in which there exists astonishing diversity . The back cover of the book reads: "The main readership of Adventures in Eating will be students in anthropology and other scholars, but the explosion of food media gives the book additional appeal for fans of No Reservations and Bizarre Foods on the Travel Channel ." Part of what makes those shows so appealing is not simply the Emmy

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Gastronomica – University of California Press

Published: Apr 1, 2012

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