The Life of Cheese - Heather Paxson
| Автор: | Heather Paxson |
| Издательство: | Ingram |
| Серия: | California Studies in Food and Culture |
| Жанр произведения: | Кулинария |
| Год издания: | 0 |
| isbn: | 9780520954021 |
Cheese is alive, and alive with meaning. Heather Paxson’s beautifully written anthropological study of American artisanal cheesemaking tells the story of how craftwork has become a new source of cultural and economic value for producers as well as consumers. Dairy farmers and artisans inhabit a world in which their colleagues and collaborators are a wild cast of characters, including plants, animals, microorganisms, family members, employees, and customers. As «unfinished» commodities, living products whose qualities are not fully settled, handmade cheeses embody a mix of new and old ideas about taste and value. By exploring the life of cheese, Paxson helps rethink the politics of food, land, and labor today.