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

Mintz (anthropology, Johns Hopkins U.) writes provocatively and engagingly about eating as it defines our nature as living creatures our choices hold enormous significance for us. He shows how eating is influenced by a variety of external forces, including moral judgments and the demands of war. The eight essays include some that have been published before, and some new ones. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.