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How to cook a tapir : a memoir of Belize
- Title
- How to cook a tapir : a memoir of Belize / Joan Fry.
- Author
- Fry, Joan.
- Publication
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2009], ©2009.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | F1465.2.K5 F78 2009 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xxii, 240 pages, 28 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "Coming of age in the jungle, among the Kekchi and Mopan Maya, Fry learned to teach, to barter and negotiate, to hold her ground, and to share her space - and, perhaps most important, she learned to cook." "This is the funny, heartfelt, and provocative story of how Fry painstakingly baked and boiled her way up the food chain, from instant oatmeal and flour tortillas to bush-green soup, agouti (a big rodent), gibnut (a bigger rodent), and, finally, something even the locals wouldn't tackle: a "mountain cow," or tapir. Fry's efforts to win over her neighbors and hair-pulling students offers a rare and insightful picture of the Kekchi Maya of Belize, even as this unique culture was disappearing before her eyes."--BOOK JACKET.
- Series Statement
- At table
- Uniform Title
- At table series.
- Subjects
- Contents
- 1. Hurricane -- 2. Bush Bride -- 3. At Home in the Jungle -- 4. The Village Idiot -- 5. No Lips or Eyelids -- 6. Kinship -- 7. Home Brew -- 8. Walking with the Dead -- 9. The Essential Nature of the Rainforest -- 10. Everybody and Her Brother -- 11. Dick and Jane & Ilegorio y Teodora -- 12. Hexed -- 13. Strawberry Sunday -- 14. Food Feud -- 15. "You Need a Second Husband" -- 16. The Earth Is a Cornfield -- 17. A Feast among the Fallen Gods.
- ISBN
- 9780803219038 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0803219032 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2008039683
- 40016462787
- OCLC
- ocn253838126
- 253838126
- SCSB-5460617
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries