Sydney Mintz: the father of food anthropology

Sydney Mintz “profiled the rural proletariat” – millions of people employed in appalling conditions to produce food for Western consumers – in provocative books that earned him the unofficial title of father of food anthropology, says a New York Times obituary. His 1985 book, “Sweetness and Power, the place of sugar in modern history,” linked colonial… » Read More

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