The menial art of cooking [electronic resource] : archaeological studies of cooking and food preparation / edited by Sarah R. Graff and Enrique Rodríguez-Alegría.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: The Menial Art of Cooking / Enrique Rodríguez-Alegría and Sarah R. Graff -- Culinary Preferences : Seal-Impressed Vessels from Western Syria as Specialized Cookware / Sarah R. Graff -- Food Preparation, Social Context, and Ethnicity in a Prehistoric Mesopotamian Colony / Gil J. Stein -- The Habitus of Cooking Practices at Neolithic Çatalhöyük : What Was the Place of the Cook? / Christine A. Hastorf -- Cooking Meat and Bones at Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Turkey / Nerissa Russell and Louise Martin -- From Grinding Corn to Dishing Out Money : A Long-Term History of Cooking in Xaltocan, Mexico / Enrique Rodríguez-Alegría -- Cooking for Fame or Fortune : The Effect of European Contact on Casabe Production in the Orinoco / Kay Tarble de Scaramelli and Franz Scaramelli -- Crafting Harappan Cuisine on the Saurashtran Frontier of the Indus Civilization / Brad Chase -- Vale Boi : 10,000 Years of Upper Paleolithic Bone Boiling / Tiina Manne -- "Hoe Cake and Pickerel" : Cooking Traditions, Community, and Agency at a Nineteenth-Century Nipmuc Farmstead / Guido Pezzarossi, Ryan Kennedy, and Heather Law -- Great Transformations : On the Archaeology of Cooking / Kathleen D. Morrison.

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