Food:the key concepts

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Belasco Warren James
Published: Berg,
Publisher Address: Oxford New York
Publication Dates: c2008.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: The key concepts
Subjects:
Carrier Form: viii, 158 p.: ill. ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 9781845206727 (cloth)
184520672X (cloth)
9781845206734 (paper)
1845206738 (paper)
Index Number: TS20
CLC: TS20
C913.3
TS971
K891.25
Call Number: C913.3/B426
Contents: Includes bibliographical references (p. [129]-150) and index.
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 : busine