DTS200Y1 Lecture Notes - Food Systems, Local Food, Sustainable Agriculture
20 Apr 2013
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In the reading sugar use to be known as a spice and a luxury, motive for slave trade, produced from sugar cane (not always the case), addictive, How we can use food to understand diaspora, transnationalism. Food system components in large-scale agrarian societies: the food core-legume-fringe hypothesis. Core= one or more complex carbohydrates for calories- wheat, maize, barley, millet potatoes, yam, etc According to food scholars they have come understand that all food systems in the world, whether western african, caribbean, are constructed around core, legume, and fringe. They suggest every culture always has a basic core: ex: italians- pasta. Legume= accompanying legumes for protein- soybeans, chickpeas, lentils, black- eyed beans, groundnuts, etc. Meats and fish were used as a supplementary proteins when they would be found. Meat was typically eaten by the elite classes; therefore this model applies to the agricultural cultures: ex: agrarian societies. The poor would eat legumes throughout the year and then eat meat during christmas.
