Food Nations Selling Taste in Consumer Societies

Name: Food Nations Selling Taste in Consumer Societies
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ISBN: 9780415930772

ISBN-10: 0415930774

ISBN-13: 9780415930772

Edition: 2002

Authors: Philip Scranton, Warren Belasco

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Containing essays by leading scholars in the field of food studies, Food Nations argues that we are what we eat by connecting food to culture, commerce, and national identity.

Book details

List price: $46.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 10/12/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Preface




Contexts



Food Matters: Perspectives on an Emerging Field




Food and Eating: Some Persisting Questions




The Construction of National Cuisines



Rituals of Pleasure in the Land of Treasures: Wine Consumption and the Making of French Identity in the Late Nineteenth Century




"Eddie Shack Was No Tim Horton": Donuts and the Folklore of Mass Culture in Canada




Food and Nationalism: The Origins of "Belizean Food"




The Business of Taste



Inventing Baby Food: Gerber and the Discourse of Infancy in the United States




How the French Learned to Eat Canned Food, 1809-1930s




Searching for Gold in Guacamole: California Growers Market the Avocado, 1910-1994




Ethnicity, Class, and the Food Industry



Untangling Alliances: Social Tensions surrounding Independent Grocery Stores and the Rise of Mass Retailing




As American as Budweiser and Pickles? Nation-Building in American Food Industries




Comida sin par. Consumption of Mexican Food in Los Angeles: "Foodscapes" in a Transnational Consumer Society




Food and National Politics



Industrial Tortillas and Folkloric Pepsi: The Nutritional Consequences of Hybrid Cuisines in Mexico




Berlin in the Belle Epoque: A Fast-Food History




Food and the Politics of Scarcity in Urban Soviet Russia, 1917-1941



Notes on the Contributors


Index