Opening with the author moving away from society (New York City) toward nature (a seventy-five-acre Vermont farm), it chronicles an experiment in agrarian ...
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Heather Paxson's beautifully written anthropological study of American artisanal cheesemaking tells the story of how craftwork has become a new source of ...
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Heather Paxson's book does a great job of looking into the artisanal 'slow' food culture that has been steadily growing in the United States. The book evidently ...
She focuses on values which cheesemakers tacitly or consciously embrace: the goal of making good cheese for the marketplace also creates a productive and ...
Dec 10, 2012 · Heather Paxson's innovative study shows how dairy farmers and artisans inhabit a world in which their colleagues and collaborators are, at ...
The Life of Cheese: Crafting Food and Value in America
Book by Heather Paxson
Cheese is alive, and alive with meaning. Heather Paxson’s beautifully written anthropological study of American artisanal cheesemaking tells the story of how craftwork has become a new source of cultural and economic value for producers as well as... Google Books
Originally published: December 10, 2012
Author: Heather Paxson
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Jul 9, 2015 · The Life of Cheese examines the values and meanings produced in tandem with artisanal cheese: a process where cheesemakers involve themselves ...
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Heather Paxson's beautifully written anthropological study of American artisanal cheesemaking tells the story of how craftwork has become a new source of ...
Mar 4, 2013 · The Life of Cheese is an engaging ethnography, focusing principally on varied issues involving American producers of artisanal cheese. Heather ...
""The Life of Cheese" is the definitive work on America's artisanal food revolution. Heather Paxson's engaging stories are as rich, sharp, and well-grounded ...
Mar 24, 2014 · It is a book worth reading to appreciate the complex forces involved in the creation of meaning of commodities and work in the contemporary ...