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Food : the key concepts / Warren Belasco.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Analytics: Show analyticsPublisher: Oxford : Berg, 2008Description: viii, 158 s. ill. 25 cmISBN:
  • 9781845206727
  • 184520672X
  • 9781845206734
  • 184520672X
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online:: FoodDDC classification:
  • 641.3 22
Other classification:
  • Qca
  • Pmbb
Contents:
Overview -- 1. Why study food? -- Chapter summary -- 2. Identity : Are we what we eat? -- Cuisine -- Madeleines : food and memory -- Chapter summary -- 3. The drama of food : divided identities -- Food and sexuality -- Food and gender -- Embattled food -- Chapter summary -- 4. Convenience : the global food chain -- Inside gigantic -- The eight Fs -- Chapter summary -- 5. Responsibility : Who pays for dinner? -- Health costs : food-borne illness -- Health costs : fatness -- Confronting the externalities -- Chapter summary -- 6. The future of food -- Scenarios -- The technological fix : business as usual -- The anthropological fix : back to the future -- Chapter summary -- Questions for essays and class discussion.

Overview -- 1. Why study food? -- Chapter summary -- 2. Identity : Are we what we eat? -- Cuisine -- Madeleines : food and memory -- Chapter summary -- 3. The drama of food : divided identities -- Food and sexuality -- Food and gender -- Embattled food -- Chapter summary -- 4. Convenience : the global food chain -- Inside gigantic -- The eight Fs -- Chapter summary -- 5. Responsibility : Who pays for dinner? -- Health costs : food-borne illness -- Health costs : fatness -- Confronting the externalities -- Chapter summary -- 6. The future of food -- Scenarios -- The technological fix : business as usual -- The anthropological fix : back to the future -- Chapter summary -- Questions for essays and class discussion.

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