Food and Culture: A Reader

Front Cover
Food and Culturea Reader: Third Edition
Copyright Page
Contents
Foreword from The Gastronomical Me , M.F.K. Fisher
Preface to the Third Edition
Acknowledgments
Why Food? Why Culture? Why Now? Introduction to the Third Edition Carole Counihan and Penny Van Esterik
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 IdeologicalState 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 SoCommon 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 Apocalypsefor 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. Learning Democracy Through Food Justice Movements
Contributors
CreditLines
Index