Balut

Fertilized Eggs and the Making of Culinary Capital in the Filipino Diaspora

Margaret Magat (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

208 Seiten

2021
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-25796-2 (ISBN)

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In this book, Margaret Magat explores both the traditional and popular culture contexts of eating balut. Balut—fertilized duck or chicken eggs that have developed into fully formed embryos with feathers and beaks—is a delicacy which elicits passionate responses. Hailed as an aphrodisiac in Filipino culture, balut is often seen and used as an object of revulsion in Western popular culture.

Drawing on interviews, participant observation, reality television programs, travel shows, food blogs, and balut-eating contests, Magat examines balut production and consumption, its role in drinking rituals, sex, and also the vampire-like legends behind it. Balut reveals how traditional foods are used in the performance of identity and ethnicity, inspiring a virtual online cottage industry via social media. It also looks at the impact globalization and migration are having on cultural practices and food consumption across the world.

The first academic book on balut, this is essential reading for anyone in food studies, folklore studies, anthropology, and Asian American studies.

Margaret Magat is an Independent Scholar and folklorist, USA.

List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
Foreword

1. Introduction
2. Why Eat Balut? Consumption and Tradition
3. A Nation in an Egg
4. The Sensual and Supernatural in Balut Lore
5. Performing Identity Through Balut-Eating Contests
6. Balut: The Super Clickbait of the Internet
7. Conclusion

References
Appendix
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	01.02.2021
Zusatzinfo	25 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	154 x 232 mm
Gewicht	320 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-350-25796-6 / 1350257966
ISBN-13	978-1-350-25796-2 / 9781350257962
Zustand	Neuware