Word of Mouth What We Talk about When We Talk about Food

Name: Word of Mouth What We Talk about When We Talk about Food
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ISBN: 9780520273924

ISBN-10: 0520273923

ISBN-13: 9780520273924

Edition: 2014

Authors: Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson

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Today, more than ever, talking about food improves the eating of it. Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson argues that conversation can even trump consumption. Where many works look at the production, preparation, and consumption of food, Word of Mouth captures the language that explains culinary practices. Explanation is more than an elaboration here: how we talk about food says a great deal about the world around us and our place in it. What does it mean, Ferguson asks, to cook and consume in a globalized culinary world subject to vertiginous change? Answers to this question demand a mastery of food talk in all its forms and applications. To prove its case, Word of Mouth draws on a broad range of…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 7/7/2014
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 296
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.00" long x 0.97" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English