Preparing the Modern Meal

Urban Capitalism and Working-Class Food in Kenya's Port City

(Author) Devin Smart
Format: Paperback
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This book explores how twentieth-century urban capitalism created a new food system in East Africa's most important port city: Mombasa, Kenya. Inside households, the dynamics of urban life changed the gendered structures of cooking, while new businesses emerged to sell food to working-class communities that now had to rely on cash to acquire their daily sustenance.

Information
Publisher:
Ohio University Press
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
None
Language:
en
ISBN:
9780821426234
Publish year:
2025
Publish date:
May 27, 2025

Devin Smart

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