"Much Depends on Dinner"

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This paper provides a fairly critical review of Margaret Visser's "Much Depends on Dinner". The writer notes that this is a popular volume that discusses ingredients of a typical meal in North America, according to the origins of food stuffs and ephemera. The writer further points out that the concept of this volume is most interesting for a general readership, but that students will gain more from recent anthropology looking at food and technology in relation to cultures and cultural change.

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"Margaret Visser's volume is written in an entertaining, anecdotal way. She accounts for ways in which particular foods enter the diets of sometimes diverse peoples and, in turn, become usual fare for consumption, and some of them, as global phenomena, all their own. Visser has obviously done a great deal of research, determined to find the origins, often more than one, of foods that are familiar to us, their particular merits, or what they may signify about the societies that used them earliest, or that use them most, towards some interesting reading."

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