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Front Cover
food and culture
Title
Copyright
Contents
Foreword from The Gastronomical Me , M.F.K. Fisher
Preface to the Third Edition
Acknowlegments
Why Food? Why Culture? Why Now? Introduction to the Third Edition
Foundations
1 Why Do We Overeat?
2 Toward a Psychosociology of Contemporary Food Consumption
3. Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste
4. The Culinary Triangle
5. The Abominations of Leviticus
6. The Abominable Pig
7. Industrial Food: Towards the Development of a World Cuisine
8. Time, Sugar, and Sweetness
Hegemony and Difference: Race,Class, and Gender
9. More than Just the “Big Piece of Chicken”: The Power of Race, Class, and Food in American Consciousness
10. The Overcooked and Underdone: Masculinities in Japanese Food Programming
11. Domestic Divo? Televised Treatments of Masculinity, Femininity, and Food
12. Japanese Mothers and Obento-s: The Lunch-Box as Ideological State Apparatus
13. Mexicanas’ Food Voice and Differential Consciousness in the San Luis Valley of Colorado
14. Feeding Lesbigay Families
15. Thinking Race Through Corporeal Feminist Theory: Divisions and Intimacies at the Minneapolis Farmers’ Market
16. The Raw and the Rotten: Punk Cuisine
Consumption and Embodiment
17. Fast, Feast, and Flesh: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women
18. Not Just “a White Girl’s Thing”: The Changing Face of Food and Body Image Problems
19. De-medicalizing Anorexia: Opening a New Dialogue
20. Feeding Hard Bodies: Food and Masculinities in Men’s Fitness Magazines
21. Cooking Skills, the Senses, and Memory: The Fate of Practical Knowledge
22. Not “From Scratch”: Thai Food Systems and “Public Eating”
23. Rooting Out the Causes of Disease: Why Diabetes is So Common Among Desert Dwellers
24. Between Obesity and Hunger: The Capitalist Food Industry
Food and Globalization
25.“As Mother Made It”: The Cosmopolitan Indian Family,“Authentic” Food, and the Construction of Cultural Utopia
26. “Real Belizean Food”: Building Local Identity in the Transnational Caribbean
27. Let’s Cook Thai: Recipes for Colonialism
28. Slow Food and the Politics of “Virtuous Globalization”
29. Taco Bell, Maseca, and Slow Food: A Postmodern Apocalypse for Mexico’s Peasant Cuisine?
30.Food Workers as Individual Agents of Culinary Globalization: Pizza and Pizzaioli in Japan
31. Of Hamburger and Social Space: Consuming McDonald’s in Beijing
32. On the Move for Food: Three Women Behind the Tomato’s Journey
Challenging, Contesting, and Transforming the Food System
33. The Chain Never Stops
34. Fast Food/Organic Food: Refl exive Tastes and the Making of “Yuppie Chow”
35. The Politics of Breastfeeding: An Advocacy Update
36. The Political Economy of Food Aid in an Era of Agricultural Biotechnology
37. The Political Economy of Obesity: The Fat Pay All
38. Want Amid Plenty: From Hunger to Inequality
39. Community Food Security “For Us, By Us”: The Nation of Islam and the Pan African Orthodox Christian Church
40. Community Food Security “For Us, By Us”: The Nation of Islam and the Pan African Orthodox Christian Church
Contributors
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