Corn Meets Maize: Food Movements and Markets in Mexico

by Lauren E. Baker

Book Overview

Corn Meets Maize links the everyday practices of growing, cooking, and exchanging food in specific cultural, economic, and ecological contexts to broader social movements in Mexico and beyond. The local food networks Lauren E. Baker explores in Mexico are rich examples of contemporary agricultural and culinary transformations; they also reveal the impacts of neoliberal economic policies and new agricultural biotechnologies. Drawing on concrete examples...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442206519
• ISBN13: 9781442206519
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"