Cooking—and Coping—Among the Cacti: Diet. Nutrition and Available Income in Northwestern Mexico, R.D. Baer. A review

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From Gordon and Breach Publishers, Amsteldijk, 166, 1st Floor, 1079 LH Amsterdam, The Netherlands, softcover (1998), 130 pp, $19.00, ISBN# 90-5699-576-6

This ethnography is based on data from 105 families in Sonora, Mexico. The author4 study combines the use of ethnographic and quantitative analyses. This enables the author to evaluate how a variety of social and cultural factors impact and relate to "available income. "

Cooking-and Coping-Among the Cacti, Diet, Nutrition and Available Income in North- western Mexico is volume 13 of the Gordon and Breach Pub1ishers'"Food and Nutrition in History and Anthropology" series. This 113-page ethnography is comprised of five chapters, appendices, and references.
Original languageAmerican English
Pages (from-to)241-242
Number of pages2
JournalJournal of Nutrition Education
Volume31
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 1999

Disciplines

  • Medicine and Health Sciences
  • Gerontology

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