Merry White on Japan's long-standing coffee culture
Meant To Be Eaten
English - June 02, 2019 19:00 - 42 minutes - 38.5 MB - ★★★★ - 6 ratingsSociety & Culture Arts Food meant to be eaten coral lee authenticity ethnic food cultural appropriation culinary world hospitality industry restaurants chefs Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Cafes offer up this unique third space - not home, nor work - for people to be private in a public space. Merry White, professor of Anthropology at Boston University, studies just this: cafes and cafe culture, but in Japan. Her book, Coffee Life in Japan, “part ethnography, part memoir”, traces Japan’s cafe’s society over the past century and a half.
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