The Life of Cheese: Crafting Food and Value in America, 1st Edition – FULL INSTANT DOWNLOAD | PDF DOCX EPUB

Ebook Name: The Life of Cheese: Crafting Food and Value in America
Edition: 1st Edition
ISBN-13: 9780520270183
ISBN-10: 0520270185
Addition ISBN: 9780520270176, 0520954025, 9780520954021
Author(s): Heather Paxson, Publisher: University of California Press, Copyright: 2012

Cheese is alive, and alive with meaning. Heather Paxson’s beautifully written anthropological study of American artisanal cheesemaking tells the story of how craftwork has become a new source of cultural and economic value for producers as well as consumers. Dairy farmers and artisans inhabit a world in which their colleagues and collaborators are a wild cast of characters, including plants, animals, microorganisms, family members, employees, and customers. As “unfinished” commodities, living products whose qualities are not fully settled, handmade cheeses embody a mix of new and old ideas about taste and value. By exploring the life of cheese, Paxson helps rethink the politics of food, land, and labor today.