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Food : The Key Concepts

ISBN: 9781845206734 | 1845206738
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Pub. Date: 10/15/2008

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
This book offers an exciting, coherent and interdisciplinary introduction to the study of food studies for the beginning reader. Food choices, the author argues, are the result of a complex negotiation among three competing considerations: the consumers' identity; matters of convenience, including price; and an awareness of the consequences of what is consumed. The book concludes with an examination of two very different future scenarios for feeding the world's population; the technological fix, which looks to science to provide the solution to... MORE
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Overviewp. ix
Why Study Food?p. 1
Chapter Summaryp. 13
Identity: Are We What We Eat?p. 15
Cuisinep. 15
Madeleines: Food and Memoryp. 25
Chapter Summaryp. 34
The Drama of Food: Divided Identitiesp. 35
Food and Sexualityp. 35
Food and Genderp. 41
Embattled Foodp. 52
Chapter Summaryp. 53
Convenience: The Global Food Chainp. 55
Inside Gianticp. 67
The Eight Fsp. 70
Chapter Summaryp. 78
Responsibility: Who Pays for Dinner?p. 79
Health Costs: Food-borne Illnessp. 84
Health Costs: Fatnessp. 88
Confronting the Externalitiesp. 96
Chapter Summaryp. 103
The Future of Foodp. 105
Scenariosp. 113
The Technological Fix: Business as Usualp. 114
The Anthropological Fix: Back to the Futurep. 118
Chapter Summaryp. 123
Questions for Essays and Class Discussionp. 125
Notesp. 129
Bibliographyp. 135
Indexp. 151
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Warren Belasco is Professor of American Studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.


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