Life of Cheese Crafting Food and Value in America

Name: Life of Cheese Crafting Food and Value in America
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ISBN: 9780520270183

ISBN-10: 0520270185

ISBN-13: 9780520270183

Edition: 2012

Authors: Heather Paxson

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This fascinating anthropological study of American artisan cheese and cheesemakers tells the story of how craftwork has become a new source of cultural and economic value within American landscapes of production and consumption. Heather Paxson's innovative and beautifully written study shows how dairy farmers and artisans inhabit a world in which their colleagues and collaborators are a wild cast of characters, including plants, animals, microorganisms, family members, employees, and customers. Cheese is alive with meaning, but it is also alive with the activity of organisms large and small. As "unfinished" commodities, living products whose qualities are not fully settled, handmade cheeses…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 12/10/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 332
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Preface


Acknowledgments



American Artisanal



Ecologies of Production



Economies of Sentiment



Traditions of Invention



The Art and Science of Craft



Microbiopolitics



Place, Taste, and the Promise of Terroir



Bellwether


Appendix


Notes


Bibliography


Index