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Alison Kr gel practices the best in Andean cultural studies. Her book is an excellent interdisciplinary study of the Quechua Food Landscape. She focuses her study on such sites as an Andean market and chicheria and also interprets visual, written, and oral narratives. Her historical, gender, economic, literary and anthropological approaches involve local, national and global contexts and help us to understand why Peruvian Cuisine is becoming fashionable in the most cosmopolitan cities all over the world. I highly recommend this book as reading material for an Andean Cultural Studies Course.--Ulises Juan Zevallos-Aguilar

This is an impressive, comprehensive historical analysis of the nutritional qualities and symbolic meanings of Andean foods from pre-Columbian times to the present. Krogel analyzes Quechua riddles, colonial art, modern day cinema, and the Free Trade Agreement to provide a coherent analysis of the role of food and cooks in situations of domination and resistance. Food, Power, and Resistance in Quechua Verbal and Visual Narratives is a fascinating and thorough study that provides a new understanding of the relationship between food and power in the Andes.--Rachel Corr

Alison Krogel has written a lovely book about food, language and culture in the Peruvian Andes. Moving back and forth between past and present, novels and folklore, cooking and representations of cooking, this book is a delightful introduction to the Quechua language, to the native food crops of the Andes, and to the subtle interactions between the two.--Mary Weismantel

Alison Krogel practices the best in Andean cultural studies. Her book is an excellent interdisciplinary study of the Quechua Food Landscape. She focuses her study on such sites as an Andean market and chicheria and also interprets visual, written, and oral narratives. Her historical, gender, economic, literary and anthropological approaches involve local, national and global contexts and help us to understand why Peruvian Cuisine is becoming fashionable in the most cosmopolitan cities all over the world. I highly recommend this book as reading material for an Andean Cultural Studies Course. -- Ulises Juan Zevallos-Aguilar Alison Krogel has written a lovely book about food, language and culture in the Peruvian Andes. Moving back and forth between past and present, novels and folklore, cooking and representations of cooking, this book is a delightful introduction to the Quechua language, to the native food crops of the Andes, and to the subtle interactions between the two. -- Mary Weismantel This is an impressive, comprehensive historical analysis of the nutritional qualities and symbolic meanings of Andean foods from pre-Columbian times to the present. Krogel analyzes Quechua riddles, colonial art, modern day cinema, and the Free Trade Agreement to provide a coherent analysis of the role of food and cooks in situations of domination and resistance. Food, Power, and Resistance in Quechua Verbal and Visual Narratives is a fascinating and thorough study that provides a new understanding of the relationship between food and power in the Andes. -- Rachel Corr

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Alison Krögel is assistant professor of Spanish at the University of Denver.

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