Bigger Fish to Fry: A Theory of Cooking as Risk, with Greek Examples | BERGHAHN BOOKS
Join our Email List Berghahn Books Logo

berghahn New York · Oxford

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Youtube
  • Instagram
Browse
Bigger Fish to Fry: A Theory of Cooking as Risk, with Greek Examples

View Table of Contents


Series
Volume 3

New Anthropologies of Europe: Perspectives and Provocations

Email Newsletters

Sign up for our email newsletters to get customized updates on new Berghahn publications.

Click here to select your preferences

Bigger Fish to Fry

A Theory of Cooking as Risk, with Greek Examples

David E. Sutton

142 pages, 10 illus., bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-80073-223-0 $99.00/£72.00 / Hb / Published (September 2021)

ISBN  978-1-80539-113-5 $29.95/£23.95 / Pb / Published (September 2023)

eISBN 978-1-80539-370-2 eBook

https://doi.org/10.3167/9781800732230


View CartYour country: - edit Request a Review or Examination Copy (in Digital Format)Recommend to your LibraryAvailable in GOBI®

Reviews

“With writing that is highly readable, clear, and well-paced, this book will appeal to students and scholars alike, especially those studying food and cooking, Greece, and risk, and is an exceptional example of studying food practices for their theoretical bounty.” • Food, Culture & Society

“It is a highly readable and conceptually rich book drawing on material from ethnographic work in Kalymnos, Greece, and popular culture in the USA. It beautifully wedges current discussions about cooking into the stream of scholarly discussion in Cultural Anthropology and Cultural Sociology.” • Krishnendu Ray, New York University

“This book constitutes a moment in which the systematic and long-standing knowledge of [the author's] field, and the very rewarding trajectory of fieldwork over the years, has now reached a point when they can produce anthropological knowledge of another level.” • Vassiliki Yiakoumaki, University of Thessaly, Greece

Description

What defines cooking as cooking, and why does cooking matter to the understanding of society, cultural change and everyday life? This book explores these questions by proposing a new theory of the meaning of cooking as a willingness to put oneself and one’s meals at risk on a daily basis. Richly illustrated with examples from the author’s anthropology fieldwork in Greece, Bigger Fish to Fry proposes a new approach to the meaning of cooking and how the study of cooking can reshape our understanding of social processes more generally.

David E. Sutton has been teaching at the department of Anthropology, Southern Illinois University Since 1999. He has been a Full Professor since 2011. Key Publications include Secrets from the Greek Kitchen (California Series in Food and Culture, 2014), and Remembrance of Repasts (Berg, Materializing Culture Series, 2001).

Interview with the author conducted by Ariana Gunderson for CaMP Anthropology.

Subject: Food & NutritionAnthropology (General)Cultural Studies (General)
Area: Southern Europe




Contents

Download ToC (PDF)

Back to Top



Library Recommendation Form

Dear Librarian,

I would like to recommend Bigger Fish to Fry A Theory of Cooking as Risk, with Greek Examples for the library. Please include it in your next purchasing review with my strong recommendation. The RRP is: $99.00

I recommend this title for the following reasons:

BENEFIT FOR THE LIBRARY: This book will be a valuable addition to the library's collection.

REFERENCE: I will refer to this book for my research/teaching work.

STUDENT REFERRAL: I will regularly refer my students to the book to assist their studies.

OWN AFFILIATION: I am an editor/contributor to this book or another book in the Series (where applicable) and/or on the Editorial Board of the Series, of which this volume is part.