Table of Contents

THE GLOBAL SUPERMARKET * Fast Food Planet? * Thinking More Clearly about Globalization * The Caribbean at the Vanguard of Globalization * A Radical Proposal * Why Start in Belize? * GLOBALIZATION THROUGH FOOD * Food as a way to Understand Globalization * My First Taste of Belize * A Long Global History * RECIPE: Creole Buns * PIRATES AND BAYMEN * Buccaneers at the River Balise * The Buccaneer Diet * Were the Buccaneers Farmers? * A Taste for Fish and Fat * Drinking Men * RECIPE: Salamagundy
* SLAVES AND MASTERS AT TABLE * Trade and Empire Conflict, Dislocation and Slavery * Slave Society * Slave Food * Globalization at the Margins * Out of Diversity, A Common Culture * RECIPE: Pork and Doughboys * THE TASTE OF COLONIALISM * Migrants and their Ethnic Stews * Racism on the Menu * Spicing up the Colonial Pot * Rum, Dancing, and Sexual Pleasure * Luxuries and Rewards * Global Food in Barrels and Bottles * RECIPE: Saltfish and Plantains * GLOBAL INGREDIENTS AND LOCAL PRODUCTS * Making and Mixing Local Food * Creoles in the Kitchen * Recipes for a New Cuisine * Class Boundaries and the Meaning of Food * Ethnic Lumps in a Creole Stew * RECIPE: Chicken Tacarry * FOOD POLITICS AND THE MAKING OF A NATION * Problems that Won't Go Away * Why Can't Belize Feed Itself? * The Real Problem is Global, Not Local * National Thinking in a Global World * What is a Poor Country to Do? * Food on the Political Battlefield * RECIPE: Winter Fruit Salad * MIGRANTS, TOURISTS AND NEW BELIZEAN CUISINE * A New Kind of Globalization * Post-Colonial Cookbooks * The Legacy of Colonialism: Cultural Ambivalence * The Royal Rat: Building Pride in Local Food * Migration and the returban of the Belizean-Americans * The Peace Corps and More * Authentic and Natural, with a Touch of Thai: Cruise Ships and Ecotourists * Nouvelle Belizean Cuisine and Roots Food * RECIPE: Chilled Canteloupe Soup, Cayo Cuban Sandwiches * FAST FOOD OR HOME COOKING * A World of Fast Food Nations? * Variety on the Menu in the Global Village * Biodiversity And Culidiversity * Home Cooking * RECIPE: Rice and Beans * Bibliography * Index