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"Examines the role of food in the construction of the Jewish nation, using food from field to table as a lens through which to understand Israeli history, society, and politics"-- "When people discuss food in Israel, their debates ask politically charged questions: Who has the right to falafel? Whose hummus is better? But Yael Raviv's Falafel Nation moves beyond the simply territorial to divulge the role food plays in the Jewish nation. She ponders the power struggles, moral dilemmas, and religious and ideological affiliations of the different ethnic groups that make up the "Jewish State" and how they relate to the gastronomy of the region. How do we interpret the recent upsurge in the Israeli culinary scene--the transition from ideological asceticism to the current deluge of fine restaurants, gourmet stores, and related publications and media?Focusing on the period between the 1905 immigration wave and the Six-Day War in 1967, Raviv explores foodways from the field, factory, market, and kitchen to the table. She incorporates the role of women, ethnic groups, and different generations into the story of Zionism and offers new assertions from a secular-foodie perspective on the relationship between Jewish religion and Jewish nationalism. A study of the changes in food practices and in attitudes toward food and cooking, Falafel Nation explains how the change in the relationship between Israelis and their food mirrors the search for a definition of modern Jewish nationalism. "--
HISTORY / Middle East / Israel. --- COOKING / Regional & Ethnic / Jewish & Kosher. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies. --- National characteristics, Israeli. --- Cooking --- Cooking, Israeli --- Israeli national characteristics --- Cookery --- Cuisine --- Food preparation --- Food science --- Home economics --- Cookbooks --- Dinners and dining --- Food --- Gastronomy --- Table --- Cookery, Israeli --- Israeli cooking --- Social aspects --- History.
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Drawing on ethnography conducted in Israel since the late 1990s, Food and Power considers how power is produced, reproduced, negotiated, and subverted in the contemporary Israeli culinary sphere. Nir Avieli explores issues such as the definition of Israeli cuisine, the ownership of hummus, the privatization of communal Kibbutz dining rooms, and food at a military prison for Palestinian detainees to show how cooking and eating create ambivalence concerning questions of strength and weakness and how power and victimization are mixed into a sense of self-justification that maintains internal cohesion among Israeli Jews.
National characteristics, Israeli. --- Kosher food. --- Cooking --- Cooking, Israeli --- Cookery, Israeli --- Israeli cooking --- Cookery --- Cuisine --- Food preparation --- Food science --- Home economics --- Cookbooks --- Dinners and dining --- Food --- Gastronomy --- Table --- Kasher food --- Jews --- Israeli national characteristics --- Social aspects --- History. --- Dietary laws --- Israel --- Social life and customs. --- 1990s. --- anthropology. --- cheap food. --- chef. --- cuisine. --- culinary. --- culture. --- ethnographic. --- ethnography. --- faith. --- family life. --- food and drink. --- food history. --- food production. --- holocaust survivor. --- holocaust. --- hummus. --- independence day. --- israel. --- israeli cuisine. --- israeli food. --- israeli jews. --- jewish studies. --- jewish. --- jews. --- judaism. --- kibbutz. --- middle east. --- middle eastern cuisine. --- middle eastern food. --- palestine. --- religion. --- restauranteur. --- state of israel. --- street food. --- world history.
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