Food and everyday life

Food and everyday life / edited by Thomas M. Conroy.

This book is a qualitative/interpretive/phenomenological, and interdisciplinary, examination of food and food practices and their meanings in the modern world. Each chapter thematically focuses upon a particular food practice and on some key details of the examined practice, or on the practice'...

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Main Author: Conroy, Thomas M., 1961-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham : Lexington Books, a wholly owned subsidiary of Rowman and Littlefield, [2014]
Subjects:
Food habits.
Food preferences.
Food industry and trade.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Customs & Traditions.
Food habits
Food industry and trade
Food preferences
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Table of Contents:
  • Gagging on the other: television's gross food challenge / Stacey Jameson
  • From Bento to blog: the digital culture of an everyday Japanese meal / Klara Seddon
  • Museums, consumption, and the everyday: encountering the colonial "other" through food / Irina D. Mihalache
  • From snack to cuisine: the spatialization of Taiwanese foods / Hui-tun Chaung
  • "Drinking local": sustainable brewing, alternative food networks, and the politics of valuation / J. Nichol Beckham
  • The tension between gourmet and everyday: communicating value while encouraging consumption / Amy Singer
  • Cultivating localization through commodity de-fetishism: contours of authenticity and the pursuit of transparency in the local organic agrarian food market / Zack Schrank
  • Embodied connections: a new wave of urban agriculture / Bethany Turner and Joanna Hendriks
  • The dilemma of dinner: the practice of home cooking in everyday life / Roblyn Rawlins and David Livert
  • The phenomonology of food consumption: a developmental view / Matthew Day
  • Healthy eating on a budget: negotiating tensions between two discourses / Marianne LeGreco, Stephanie Greene, and Derek Shaw
  • Fat eats: a phenomenology of decadence, food, and health / Talia Welsh.

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