Food Around the World: A Cultural Perspective

Food Around the World: A Cultural Perspective by McWilliams, Margaret. Hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780130944566.

Appreciation and understanding of cultures around the world is one of the challenging goals of this brand new book. Food is featured prominently because of its universal appeal and the meaningful ways that geography, climate, economics, and religion have combined with history and culture to define the ingredients and food patterns unique to countries and regions around the world. In addition, the book provides readers with a sound fundamental knowledge of the worlds nations and the uniqueness of todays rich cultural patterns. Offers readers recipes, maps, and photographs from such regions of the world as the British Isles, Scandinavia, Italy, Greece, Turkey, India, Southeast Asia, China, South America, and the Caribbean. For clinical dieticians and administrative dieticians in hospitals.