Reddit reviews Home Cooking in the Global Village: Caribbean Food from Buccaneers to Ecotourists (Anthropology and Material Culture)

Last year I took an "Ethnography of Food" course where we read some really great texts.

A lot of my classmates really enjoyed Around the Tuscan Table by Carole M. Counihan. It centers around various members of a family in Italy and their ideas and traditions when it comes to food, eating, and the cultural issues that surround it, like gender or class.

We also read Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser, which is a pretty famous book. I found it to be the quickest read and a fascinating page-turner. It's kind of pop-culture-y though and while you could certainly consider it an ethnography, Schlosser is ultimately a journalist, not an anthropologist.

My personal favorite was Home Cooking in the Global Village by Richard Wilk, which is short, only about 200 pages of text, but really well researched and very anthropological. It's a study of the food history of the Central American country Belize, and traces back the reasons for why food in that country is so astoundingly, incredibly bad.

Also!! Let me pimp a book written by one of my most favorite professors. Labor and Legality: An Ethnography of a Mexican Immigrant Network by Ruth Gomberg-Munoz. She's a fantastic writer that I really learned a lot from, and her book is very accessible even if you're not approaching it with a lot of outside knowledge on the subject. She goes into the history behind undocumented labor migration from Mexico to the U.S., its causes and effects, and focuses on the strategies that undocumented workers employ for survival, drawing upon personal experiences and interviews with a core group of informants and their families.

Regardless of my suggestions, hope you find something to love within the world of anthropology, it's really a wonderful discipline.