Locating Value in Artisan Cheese: Reverse Engineering Terroir for New-World Landscapes

Terroir, the taste of place, is being adapted by artisan cheesemakers in the United States to reveal the range of values-agrarian, environmental, social, and gastronomic-that they believe constitute their cheese and distinguish artisan from commodity production. Some see themselves as reverse engine...

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Main Author: Paxson, Heather Anne (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Anthropology Program (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Anthropological Association / Wiley, 2011-03-18T22:58:04Z.
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