De los plátanos de Oller a los Food Trucks: Comida, alimentación y cocina puertorriqueña en ensayos y recetas (From Oller’s plantains to food trucks: Food, eating, and Puerto Rican cuisine in essays and recipes) is a collection of essays and a brief historical cookbook that thinks through the place of food in the study of social history, economics, and politics in Puerto Rico. As Cruz Miguel Ortiz Cuadra shows, the Caribbean has been absent from discussions around food sovereignty, race, and identity even though it was the work on sugar cane and the plantation economy—conducted by Sidney Mintz—that paved the way for the field of food studies. As a sugar historian, Ortiz Cuadra documents the history of food in Puerto Rico in Eating Puerto Rico: A History of Food, Culture, and Identity, published in Spanish (2006) and English (2013). This new book continues this journey, with...
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Spring 2021
Book Review|
February 01 2021
Review: De los plátanos de Oller a los Food Trucks: Comida, alimentación y cocina puertorriqueña en ensayos y recetas, by Cruz Miguel Ortiz Cuadra Available to Purchase
De los plátanos de Oller a los Food Trucks: Comida, alimentación y cocina puertorriqueña en ensayos y recetas
, Cruz Miguel Ortiz Cuadra, San Juan
: Isla Negra Editores
, 2020
, 160 pp. $23.00 (paper)
Mónica B. Ocasio Vega
Mónica B. Ocasio Vega
University of Texas, Austin
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Gastronomica (2021) 21 (1): 111–112.
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Mónica B. Ocasio Vega; Review: De los plátanos de Oller a los Food Trucks: Comida, alimentación y cocina puertorriqueña en ensayos y recetas, by Cruz Miguel Ortiz Cuadra. Gastronomica 1 February 2021; 21 (1): 111–112. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/gfc.2021.21.1.111
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