Winner of the Society for Economic Anthropology Annual Book Prize 2008.
Belize, a tiny corner of the Caribbean wedged into Central America, has
been a fast food nation since buccaneers and pirates first stole ashore.
As early as the 1600s it was already caught in the great paradox of
globalization: how can you stay local and relish your own home cooking,
while tasting the delights of the global marketplace? Menus, recipes and
bad colonial poetry combine with Wilk's sharp anthropological insight to
give an important new perspective on the perils and problems of
globalization.