{"product_id":"tasting-qualities-9780520303256","title":"Tasting Qualities","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A stimulating account of Britain’s favourite drink.\" * Times Literary Supplement *\u003cbr\u003e\"[Besky's] nuanced study of Indian tea . . . is a refreshing brew of botany, business and culture.\" * Nature *\u003cbr\u003e\"Provides an unusual and rich understanding of the process of creating, reproducing, and evaluating the quality of tea.\" * American Anthropologist *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A wonderfully layered and immaculately researched exploration of the enduring tastes of empire.\"\u003c\/p\u003e * Allegra Lab *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eTasting Qualities\u003c\/i\u003e will be a beneficial read to a broad range of scholars with interest in food, labor, and commodity studies, the intersection of food, nutrition, and health knowledge, science and technology.\" * Food, Culture \u0026amp; Society *\u003cbr\u003e\"With a fine eye for detail and sparkling writing that makes the seemingly mundane fascinating . . . \u003ci\u003eTasting Qualities\u003c\/i\u003e is a highly original, deeply researched, and theoretically sophisticated ethnography of Indian tea’s modernity, which adds to the scholarship on commodities and capitalism.\" * Isis: A Journal of the History of Science Society *\u003cbr\u003e\"Engages deeply with the theoretical aspects of assessing the quality and value of commodities through the lens of tea.\" * CHOICE *\u003cbr\u003e\"A fascinating view of the Indian tea industry. . . . Manages to easily deconstruct and demystify the space between the plantation and the cup of tea.\" * Tea Journey *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eTasting Qualities\u003c\/i\u003e is a persuasive ethnography of quality and its many unseen constituents.\" * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eTasting Qualities\u003c\/i\u003e is a persuasive ethnography of quality and its many unseen constituents.\" * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"With a fine eye for detail and sparkling writing that makes the seemingly mundane fascinating . . . \u003ci\u003eTasting Qualities\u003c\/i\u003e is a highly original, deeply researched, and theoretically sophisticated ethnography of Indian tea’s modernity, which adds to the scholarship on commodities and capitalism.\"\u003c\/p\u003e * Isis *\u003cbr\u003e\"Combining ethnographic and archival description, Sarah Besky’s \u003ci\u003eTasting Qualities: The Past and Future of Tea\u003c\/i\u003e cleverly turns an analytic lens on the dependable and standardized aesthetics of modern capitalism.\" * American Ethnologist *\u003cbr\u003e\"Besky offers anthropologists and other interdisciplinary scholars an ethnography to teach, think with, and push their studies of work, agriculture, finance, and commodities a bit further toward our collective understanding of quality.\" * Exertions *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: The Production of Quality\u003cbr\u003e 1 • The Work of Taste\u003cbr\u003e 2 • The Auction and the Archive\u003cbr\u003e 3 • The Problem with Blending\u003cbr\u003e 4 • The Science of Quality\u003cbr\u003e 5 • The Quality of Cheap Tea\u003cbr\u003e 6 • The Quality of Markets\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: The Endurance of Quality\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402917126487,"sku":"9780520303256","price":22.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520303256.jpg?v=1730481839","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/tasting-qualities-9780520303256","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}