(DOWNLOAD) "Wine Makes Good Blood: Wine Culture Among Toronto Italians." by Ethnologies ~ eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Wine Makes Good Blood: Wine Culture Among Toronto Italians.
- Author : Ethnologies
- Release Date : January 01, 2000
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 210 KB
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Introduction Two of the many wine-related idioms with common conversational currency in our Toronto Italian household, were: lu vine fa bon sangue [wine makes good blood],(1) and l'acqua fa male e lu vine fa canta [water is bad for you [but] wine makes you sing]. Both equate wine consumption with good health. Because Italian immigrants to Toronto largely emerged from regional peasant cultures, it is not surprising that wine continued to be central to health beliefs, foodways, expressive and material culture, and a food-centered cosmology, and that it ultimately embodied sacred truths.