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Mediterranean Cuisine Concentration: Food Studies Course Readings

Library resources and information for the study of Mediterranean cuisine

Required Texts

Food Culture in Spain by F. Xavier Medina
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Call Number: GT2853.S7 M43 2005 (print & eBook)
Food Culture in the Mediterranean
ebook
Food culture in the Near East, Middle East, and North Africa by Peter Heine
Call Number: GT2853.M628 H45 2004
Print book in Library

Assigned Readings ~ Online Sources

The Great Sea : A Human History of the Mediterranean by David Abulafia
Call Number: ebook

Barbara Burlingame and Sandro Dernini, eds. Sustainable Diets and Biodiversity, pp. 222-293. by Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Staff
Medina, F. Xavier. (2019). Sustainable Food Systems in Culturally Coherent Social Contexts: Discussions Around Culture, Sustainability, Climate Change and the Mediterranean Diet: Soil-Water-Plant Nexus.
Call Number: ebook
In Castro, P., Azul, A. M., Leal Filho, W., & Azeiteiro, U. M. (2019). Climate Change-Resilient Agriculture and Agroforestry : Ecosystem Services and Sustainability. Cham, Switzerland: Springer.
Willy Jansen. “French Bread and Algerian Wine: Conflicting Identities in French Algeria.” Food, Drink, and Identity, 2001, pp. 195-218.
Call Number: ebook
In Scholliers, P. (Ed.). (2001). Food, Drink and Identity: Cooking, Eating and Drinking in Europe Since the Middle Ages. Oxford: Berg.
Al Dente : A History of Food in Italy by Fabio Parasecoli
Call Number: ebook

Brigida Marovelli, « The Significance of Landscape in a Sicilian Food Market », Anthropology of Food [Online], 11 | 2016.
Matt Goulding, The Battle for the Boqueria.
Maria del Pilar Leal Londoño, José A. Vázquez-Medina and F. Xavier Medina, « Gastronomy and tourism: blending local essence and global logic », Anthropology of Food [Online], 13 | 2018.
Nicole Kilburn, « Culinary tourism, the newest crop in Southern Italy’s farms and pastures », Anthropology of Food [Online], 13 | 2018.
Rebecca Mead. The Airbnb Invasion of Barcelona. The New Yorker, April 22, 2019.
Full-text article in Library database.
New Yorker online (with paywall)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/04/29/the-airbnb-invasion-of-barcelona
Arthur Lubow. “A Laboratory of Taste.” The New York Times Magazine. August 10, 2003.
Full-text article in Library database
New York Times online (with paywall)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/10/magazine/a-laboratory-of-taste.html.

Ferran : The Inside Story of El Bulli and the Man Who Reinvented Food by Colman Andrews
Call Number: ebook
The Sorcerer's Apprentices : A Season in the Kitchen at Ferran Adrià's ElBulli by Lisa Abend
Call Number: ebook

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