Food

Name: Food
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ISBN: 9781845206734

ISBN-10: 1845206738

ISBN-13: 9781845206734

Edition: 2008

Authors: Warren Belasco, Warren James Belasco

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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 our future food needs, and the anthropological fix, which hopes to change our expectations and behaviors. As a whole this book provides an essential…

Book details

List price: $25.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Publication date: 9/1/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Overview



Why Study Food?


Chapter Summary



Identity: Are We What We Eat?


Cuisine


Madeleines: Food and Memory


Chapter Summary



The Drama of Food: Divided Identities


Food and Sexuality


Food and Gender


Embattled Food


Chapter Summary



Convenience: The Global Food Chain


Inside Giantic


The Eight Fs


Chapter Summary



Responsibility: Who Pays for Dinner?


Health Costs: Food-borne Illness


Health Costs: Fatness


Confronting the Externalities


Chapter Summary



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


Notes


Bibliography


Index