Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom: Excursions into Eating, Power, and the Past

Sidney W. Mintz

Beacon Press

This is the absorbing story of Don Taso, a Puerto Rican sugar cane worker, and of his family and the village in which he lives. Told largely in his own words, it is a vivid account of the drastic changes taking place in Puerto Rico, as he sees them.Worker in the Cane is both a profound social document and a moving spiritual testimony. Don Taso portrays his harsh childhood, his courtship and early marriage, his grim struggle to provide for his family. He tells of his radical political beliefs and union activity during the Depression and describes his hardships when he was blacklisted because of his outspoken convictions. Embittered by his continuing poverty and by a serious illness, he undergoes a dramatic cure and becomes converted to a Protestant revivalist sect. In the concluding chapters the author interprets Don Taso's experience in the light of the changing patterns of life in rural Puerto Rico.

Worker in the cane;: A Puerto Rican life history,

Biographies & Memoirs

Memoirs

Greenwood Press,London

Taso, Trabajador de la Caña

Ediciones Huracán

The power of sweetness and the sweetness of power: Eight [sic] Duijker lecture

Van Loghum Slaterus

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