Nir Avieli: 2 books
Rice Talks
Food and Community in a Vietnamese Town
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
Rice Talks explores the importance of cooking and eating in the everyday social life of Hoi An, a properous market town in central Vietnam known for its exceptionally elaborate and sophisticated local cuisine. In a vivid and highly personal account, Nir Avieli takes the reader from the private setting...
Food and Power
A Culinary Ethnography of Israel
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
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...