Food and Cultural StudiesWhat and how we eat are two of the most persistent choices we face in everyday life. Whatever we decide on though, and however mundane our decisions may seem, they will be inscribed with information both about ourselves and about our positions in the world around us. Yet, food has only recently become a significant and coherent area of inquiry for cultural studies and the social sciences. |
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The raw and the cooked | 27 |
Food bodies and etiquette | 41 |
Consumption and taste | 59 |
The national diet | 75 |
The global kitchen | 91 |
Shopping for food | 105 |
Eating in | 123 |
Eating out | 141 |
Food writing | 153 |
Television chefs | 171 |
Food ethics and anxieties | 187 |
Notes | 205 |
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