Rice in the Time of Sugar: The Political Economy of Food in Cuba

Author/Contributor(s):	Perez, Louis A
Publisher:	University of North Carolina Press
Date:	05/27/2019
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

"In this history of Cuba, Louis A. Pâerez proposes a new Cuban counterpoint: rice, a staple central to the island's cuisine, and sugar, which dominated an export economy 150 years in the making. Pâerez shows how the logic of the sugar trade resulted in the development of an agriculture for consumers abroad at the expense of consumers at home. In the process, dependency on food imports, a signal feature of the Cuban economy, was set in place"--