The menial art of cooking : archaeological studies of cooking and food preparation / edited by Sarah R. Graff and Enrique Rodriguez-Alegria.

Based on the session "Archaeological Studies of Cooking and Food Preparation" at the Society for American Archaeology conference in 2005.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : The Menial Art of Cooking / Enrique Rodriguez-Alegria and Sarah R. Graff -- Culinary Preferences : Seal-Impressed Vessels from Western Syria as Specialized Cookware / Sarah R. Graff -- Food Preparation, Social Context, and Ethnicity in a Prehistoric Mesopotamian Colony / Gil J. Stein -- The Habitus of Cooking Practices at Neolithic Catalhoyuk : What Was the Place of the Cook? / Christine A. Hastorf -- Cooking Meat and Bones at Neolithic Catalhoyuk, Turkey / Nerissa Russell and Louise Martin -- From Grinding Corn to Dishing Out Money : A Long-Term History of Cooking in Xaltocan, Mexico / Enrique Rodriguez-Alegria -- Cooking for Fame or Fortune : The Effect of European Contact on Casabe Production in the Orinoco / Kay Tarble de Scaramelli and Franz Scaramelli -- Crafting Harappan Cuisine on the Saurashtran Frontier of the Indus Civilization / Brad Chase -- Vale Boi : 10,000 Years of Upper Paleolithic Bone Boiling / Tiina Manne -- "Hoe Cake and Pickerel" : Cooking Traditions, Community, and Agency at a Nineteenth-Century Nipmuc Farmstead / Guido Pezzarossi, Ryan Kennedy, and Heather Law -- Great Transformations : On the Archaeology of Cooking / Kathleen D. Morrison.