Black Cookstove : : Meditations on Literature, Culture, and Cuisine in Colombia / / Germán Patiño Ossa.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Patiño Ossa, Germán,
• MitwirkendeR: Tittler, Jonathan,
• Place / Publishing House: University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (112 p.) :; 21 illustrations/2 maps

Winner of the 2006 Andrés Bello Award for Memory and Ibero-American ThoughtIn this evocatively written book, Germán Patiño Ossa presents the cultural universe and national identities of Colombia through the lens of traditional cuisine. Focusing on the Cauca Valley, a fertile area in southwestern Colombia where Spanish, Native American, and African communities converged over the centuries, Patiño Ossa studies the food of these communities and its place in the region’s culture.Using Jorge Isaacs’s nineteenth-century Romantic novel María as a realistic source for cultural practices among Colombia’s slaveholding elite, Patiño Ossa examines cooking, kitchens, and the division of labor; flora and fauna; agriculture, hunting, and fishing; hospitality; slavery; and literature. Through the community of Afro-descendants who appear in Isaacs’s novel, Patiño Ossa shows how this culinary culture, originating in the cookstoves used by female black slaves, resulted in the Creole fusions that characterize this geographical region of Latin America. Cooking and food, as Patiño Ossa eloquently demonstrates, are essential for us to understand the process of the formation of culture and the origins, evolution, and effects of transculturation.Innovative, engaging, and accompanied by an introductory preface by the author, this English-language edition of Patiño Ossa’s prizewinning book is a model for food and cultural studies that will appeal to scholars, students, and the intellectually curious.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Translator’s Foreword -- Presentation -- Author’s Preface -- Map of “Cauca Country” in Southwest Colombia -- Translator’s Introduction -- Preamble: Tale of a Voyage -- Introduction -- Then Came Pigs and Cattle -- Things from Hither and Yon -- María -- Cooking and the Division of Labor -- Sweets and Sexuality -- Cooking, Geography, and Region -- Food, Hunting, and Society -- Traditional Cooking and Hunger -- Epilogue: Cooking and Culture -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Credits -- Glossary