Food : the key concepts /: the key concepts. (2008)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Warren Belasco.
• Other Names: Belasco, Warren James
• Contents: Overview -- 1. Why study food? -- Chapter summary -- 2. Identity : Are we what we eat? -- Cuisine -- Madeleines : food and memory -- Chapter summary -- 3. The drama of food : divided identities -- Food and sexuality -- Food and gender -- Embattled food -- Chapter summary -- 4. Convenience : the global food chain -- Inside gigantic -- The eight Fs -- Chapter summary -- 5. Responsibility : Who pays for dinner? -- Health costs : food-borne illness -- Health costs : fatness -- Confronting the externalities -- Chapter summary -- 6. 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.
• Publisher Details: Oxford New York : Berg
• Publication Date: 2008
• Extent: 1 online resource (viii, 158 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 641.3; Food manufacturing & related industries; Food; Food -- Social aspects; Food habits; Social Science; Food; Food habits; Food -- Social aspects; Ernährungsgewohnheit; Lebensmittel; Matvanor; Mat -- sociala aspekter; Sociology: customs & traditions; Social Science -- Agriculture & Food; Food & society; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781847884572; 1847884571; 9781847886095; 1847886094
• Related ISBNs: 9781845206727; 184520672X; 9781845206734; 1845206738
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-150) and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.