Israeli anthropologist discusses Hoi An's cuisine

(VOVWORLD) - The book “Rice talks: Food and Community in a Vietnamese Town” by Israeli anthropologist Nir Avieli takes you on a fascinating journey to explore Hoi An’s cuisine, revealing how cuisine shapes social bonds, cultural identity, and community motivation through family meals and community parties. Author Avieli shows you how food relates to class relations, gender roles, religious practices, cosmology, ethnicity, as well as local and national politics. This week’s That’s Life will describe how a person with a predestined connection with Hoi An turned his own fieldtrip experience into a thought-provoking book.

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