Download or read book Nutrition and Food in Mexico Publications written by and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Food Culture in Mexico written by Long Towell Long and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 2005-01-30 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since ancient times, the most important foods in the Mexican diet have been corn, beans, squash, tomatillos, and chile peppers. The role of these ingredients in Mexican food culture through the centuries is the basis of this volume. In addition, students and general readers will discover the panorama of food traditions in the context of European contact in the sixteenth century—when the Spaniards introduced new foodstuffs, adding variety to the diet—and the profound changes that have occurred in Mexican food culture since the 1950s. Recent improvements in technology, communications, and transportation, changing women's roles, and migration from country to city and to and from the United States have had a much greater impact. Their basic, traditional diet served the Mexican people well, providing them with wholesome nutrition and sufficient energy to live, work, and reproduce, as well as to maintain good health. Chapter 1 traces the origins of the Mexican diet and overviews food history from pre-Hispanic times to recent developments. The principal foods of Mexican cuisine and their origins are explained in the second chapter. Mexican women have always been responsible for everyday cooking, including the intensive preparation of grinding corn, peppers, and spices by hand, and a chapter is devoted to this work and a discussion of how traditional ways are supplemented today with modern conveniences and kitchen aids such as blenders and food processors. Surveys of class and regional differences in typical meals and cuisines present insight into the daily lives of a wide variety of Mexicans. The Mexican way of life is also illuminated in chapters on eating out, whether at the omnipresent street stalls or at fondas, and special occasions, including the main fiestas and rites of passage. A final chapter on diet and health discusses current health concerns, particularly malnutrition, anemia, diabetes, and obesity.
Download or read book Food Culture in Mexico written by Janet Long-Solis and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2005-01-30 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since ancient times, the most important foods in the Mexican diet have been corn, beans, squash, tomatillos, and chile peppers. The role of these ingredients in Mexican food culture through the centuries is the basis of this volume. In addition, students and general readers will discover the panorama of food traditions in the context of European contact in the sixteenth century—when the Spaniards introduced new foodstuffs, adding variety to the diet—and the profound changes that have occurred in Mexican food culture since the 1950s. Recent improvements in technology, communications, and transportation, changing women's roles, and migration from country to city and to and from the United States have had a much greater impact. Their basic, traditional diet served the Mexican people well, providing them with wholesome nutrition and sufficient energy to live, work, and reproduce, as well as to maintain good health. Chapter 1 traces the origins of the Mexican diet and overviews food history from pre-Hispanic times to recent developments. The principal foods of Mexican cuisine and their origins are explained in the second chapter. Mexican women have always been responsible for everyday cooking, including the intensive preparation of grinding corn, peppers, and spices by hand, and a chapter is devoted to this work and a discussion of how traditional ways are supplemented today with modern conveniences and kitchen aids such as blenders and food processors. Surveys of class and regional differences in typical meals and cuisines present insight into the daily lives of a wide variety of Mexicans. The Mexican way of life is also illuminated in chapters on eating out, whether at the omnipresent street stalls or at fondas, and special occasions, including the main fiestas and rites of passage. A final chapter on diet and health discusses current health concerns, particularly malnutrition, anemia, diabetes, and obesity.
Download or read book Eating NAFTA written by Alyshia Gálvez and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mexican cuisine has emerged as a paradox of globalization. Food enthusiasts throughout the world celebrate the humble taco at the same time that Mexicans are eating fewer tortillas and more processed food. Today Mexico is experiencing an epidemic of diet-related chronic illness. The precipitous rise of obesity and diabetes—attributed to changes in the Mexican diet—has resulted in a public health emergency. In her gripping new book, Alyshia Gálvez exposes how changes in policy following NAFTA have fundamentally altered one of the most basic elements of life in Mexico—sustenance. Mexicans are faced with a food system that favors food security over subsistence agriculture, development over sustainability, market participation over social welfare, and ideologies of self-care over public health. Trade agreements negotiated to improve lives have resulted in unintended consequences for people’s everyday lives.
Download or read book Cooking and Coping Among the Cacti written by Roberta D. Baer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using data collected from 105 households in Sonora, Mexico, the author combines detailed ethnographic research with quantitative analyses of income, diet, and nutritional status to examine the dietary patterns of residents who "cook and cope among the cacti." Employing a new analytical concept of "available income" - which can differ greatly from total income and provide valuable insight into why people eat what they do - the work explores a variety of social and cultural factors that affect food expenditure and consumption. Home production of food and the extent to which women are employed outside of the home are just two of the many variables discussed that influence available income and how it is used. But even among groups with similar available incomes, variables of ethnicity, prestige, nutritional knowledge, and the desire for consumer goods come into play.
Download or read book Food Nutrition and the Media written by Valentina Marinescu and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-08-03 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Placed at the crossroads of diverse disciplines – medical sciences, information and communication science, sociology of food, agricultural sciences – this book focuses on media, food and nutrition. Contributors to this volume come from different countries including the United Kingdom, Germany, Mexico and Romania, and consider comparatively their native cultures. The book answers several questions: How are food and nutrition made visible and publicized? What is the role of media in relation to food and nutrition? What are the strategies of discourses surrounding food and nutrition within new public spaces?
Download or read book Food Policy in Mexico written by James Austin and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Food self-sufficiency is high among the priorities of most Third World countries, yet there are relatively few detailed studies dealing with their attempts to reach this goal. A team of twenty experts—academics, policymakers, advisers, and managers—here address key issues underlying self-sufficiency strategies through an examination of the Sistema Alimentario Mexicano (SAM, Mexican Food System), a program designed to coordinate food production with distribution and consumption.
Download or read book Mexican American Food Practices Customs and Holidays written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this ethnic and regional food practice book is to help dieticians provide culturally relevant nutrition counseling and education in diabetes to Spanish-speaking clients and their families.
Download or read book Planet Taco written by Jeffrey M. Pilcher and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-14 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Planet Taco, Jeffrey Pilcher traces the historical origins and evolution of Mexico's national cuisine, explores its incarnation as a Mexican American fast-food, shows how surfers became global pioneers of Mexican food, and how Corona beer conquered the world. Pilcher is particularly enlightening on what the history of Mexican food reveals about the uneasy relationship between globalization and authenticity. The burritos and taco shells that many people think of as Mexican were actually created in the United States. But Pilcher argues that the contemporary struggle between globalization and national sovereignty to determine the authenticity of Mexican food goes back hundreds of years. During the nineteenth century, Mexicans searching for a national cuisine were torn between nostalgic "Creole" Hispanic dishes of the past and French haute cuisine, the global food of the day. Indigenous foods were scorned as unfit for civilized tables. Only when Mexican American dishes were appropriated by the fast food industry and carried around the world did Mexican elites rediscover the foods of the ancient Maya and Aztecs and embrace the indigenous roots of their national cuisine"--
Download or read book DHEW Publication written by and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mexico 68 written by Comité Organizador de los Juegos de la XIX Olimpiada and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Booklets published to accompany the year-long cultural programme instituted to coincide with the Olympic Games held in Mexico in 1968.
Download or read book Food and Culture written by Carole Counihan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 635 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative and global best-seller helped establish food studies courses throughout the social sciences and humanities when it was first published in 1997. The fourth edition of Food and Culture contains favorite articles from earlier editions and several new pieces on food politics, globalism, agriculture, and race and gender identity.
Download or read book Handbook of Mexican American Foods written by Carolyn Jackson Gleason and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: The nutritional contribution of various Mexican-American foods is presented in this handbook from the International Development Research Association. Nutrient data were collected as part of the El Paso Project, a series of workshops during which homemakers prepared traditional Mexican-American recipes that were then analyzed by computer for nutrient composition. Recipes are accompanied by bar graphs showing the percentages of Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDA) for nine nutrients (calories, protein, calcium, iron, vitamin A, thiamin, riboflavin, niacin, vitamin C) provided by a serving of the food. Diabetic exchange information is also presented for each recipe. Background information is provided on the El Paso Project, Mexican-American food habits, food acquisition and preparation, social uses of food, child feeding practices, beliefs affecting food habits, and the nutritional value of the Mexican-American diet. A receipt glossary, nutrient composition table on Mexican-American foods, food exchange chart for calorie-controlled diets, and references list are included.
Download or read book Attitudes of Mexican American Mothers about Food and Nutrition written by Laurie Kathleen Carter and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Healthy Mexican Cooking written by Velda de La Garza and published by Appletree Press (MN). This book was released on 1995 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Healthy Mexican Cooking enables readers to prepare authentic, traditional Mexican food with few ingredients, practical preparation times and moderate to low calories. This book contains over 160 low-fat, heart-healthy recipes, each with nutritional analysis and diabetic exchange. Includes special sections on the nutrition label (in Spanish and English), tools and ingredients for the Mexican kitchen, glossary of Hispanic food and ingredient terms and specialty supplier list.
Download or read book Food and Nutrition Editorial Advisers Dayle Hayes Rachel Laudan written by Dayle Hayes and published by Marshall Cavendish. This book was released on with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Joint U S Mexico Workshop on Preventing Obesity in Children and Youth of Mexican Origin written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2007-02-09 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Joint U.S.-Mexico Workshop on Preventing Obesity in Children and Youth of Mexican Origin was initiated by a desire to share experiences regarding the problem of obesity in children and youth of Mexican origin on both sides of the border, with a particular focus on potential solutions. U.S and Mexican researchers, public health officials, industry leaders, and policy-makers engaged in valuable dialogue to share perspectives, challenges, and opportunities. Commonalities and differences in the United States and Mexico regarding risk factors, potential interventions and programs, and need for all sectors to collaborate and make progress toward solving this serious public health problem were also discussed. This dialogue served as a basis to explore a bi-national agenda for addressing this epidemic, which was the ultimate goal of the workshop.
