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| List of Illustrations | |
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| List of Tables and Diagrams | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction: Setting the Anthropological Table | |
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| Introduction | |
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| An Anthropological Appetite for Food | |
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| Social Anthropological Methods and Principles | |
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| Ethnographic Fieldwork-Local and Global | |
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| A Theoretical Trifle | |
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| Cuisines | |
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| Edibility | |
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| Omnivorousness: Defining Food | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Omnivorousness | |
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| The Omnivore's Dilemma | |
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| Food Classifications and Rules | |
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| Humoral Classifications | |
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| Dietary Taboos | |
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| Nutritional Classifications | |
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| State-Based Nutritional Food Rules | |
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| Stale Dietary Guides | |
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| Do-It-Yourself Diets | |
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| Ingredients | |
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| Settled Ingredients: Domestic Food Production | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Food-Getting Strategies and Cuisines | |
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| Hunter-Gathering or Foraging | |
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| Domestication of Plants and Animals | |
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| Pastoralism | |
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| Horticulture | |
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| Agriculture | |
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| India | |
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| Exchanging Ingredients and Flavours | |
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| Local Exchanges | |
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| Long-Distance Exchange-Flavours and Ingredients | |
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| Mobile Ingredients: Global Food Production | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Further Agricultural Intensification | |
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| Exporting Industrial Agriculture | |
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| India | |
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| Guatemala | |
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| British Columbia | |
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| Commercializing Food: Industrial and National Cuisines | |
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| Cooking | |
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| Cooks and Kitchens | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Origins of Fire Use and Cooking | |
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| Cooking Techniques | |
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| Cooking and Food-Getting Strategies | |
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| Thinking through Cooking: The Culinary Triangle | |
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| Cooking and Gender | |
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| Men's Conspicuous Cooking: Public Cuisine | |
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| French Chefs and the Shaping of Cuisine | |
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| Domestic Kitchens: Home-Cooked Cuisines | |
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| Recipes and Dishes | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Recipes: Creating Dishes | |
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| Experiential Cooking: Domestic Recipes | |
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| Textual Cooking: Commercial Recipes | |
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| Cookbooks: Codifying National Cuisines | |
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| British Cuisine: Cookbooks and Dishes | |
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| Cookbooks: Travelling Recipes and Dishes | |
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| Eating | |
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| Eating-in: Commensality and Castro-Politics | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Patterns of Eating | |
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| When: Mealtimes | |
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| What: Dishes and Proper Meals | |
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| How: Commensality | |
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| Where: Private and Public | |
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| Who: Kin to Strangers | |
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| Gastro-politics | |
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| Special Meals: Feasting | |
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| Celebratory Feasts | |
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| Entrepreneurial Feasts | |
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| Patron Feasts | |
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| Exclusive Feasts | |
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| Eating-Out and Gastronomy | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Eating Away from Home: A Risky Business? | |
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| Street Food: Eating Standing Up | |
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| Public Eating: Sitting Down | |
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| Characteristics of Restaurants | |
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| Gastronomy: Cultivating Culinary Taste | |
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| Types of Restaurants: Culinary Foodscapes | |
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| Indigenous Restaurants | |
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| Mainstream Restaurants | |
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| Immigrants and Ethnic Restaurants | |
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| Indian Cuisine in Britain | |
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| Chinese Cuisine in North America | |
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| Restaurants as "Ethnosites": Cross-Cultural Encounters | |
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| Digesting | |
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| Gastro-Anomie: Global Indigestion? | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Globalized Industrial Food: Gastro-anomie | |
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| Indigenous Gastro-anomie | |
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| Digesting the Discourse | |
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| Angry Farmers: Food Sovereignty | |
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| Food Crises: Food Security | |
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| Food Insecurity: Health, Gastro-anomie, and Cuisines | |
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| Local Digestion: Making the Global at Home | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Localizing Global Foods: From Sushi to Hamburgers | |
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| Globalized Commodities | |
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| Locavorism: Eating Locally | |
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| Fanners' Markets: Local Foods and Faces | |
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| Ethical Consumers: Local and Global Implications | |
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| Epilogue: Leftovers to Takeaway | |
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| Takeaway Cuisine | |
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| Takeaway Leftovers | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |