This popular text, now in a third edition, offers readers a vivid perspective on the cultural and social complexities of Food practices and the current Food system.
Written in a lively, accessible style, this book provides students with an unrivalled and multifaceted introduction to this fascinating aspect of social life..
Throughout, the book blends concepts and empirical accounts to address the central issues of culture, structure, and social inequality.
Updates and enhancements in this edition reflect new scholarly insights into how Food is involved in social media, social movements, and the COVID-19 pandemic.
Chapter topics include identity, restaurants and Food media, health, marketing, industrialization, global food, surplus and scarcity, and social change.
Each chapter begins with an intriguing case study and ends with suggested resources and activities.
Synthesizing insights from the multidisciplinary field of Food studies, this book engages readers\' curiosity by highlighting the seeming Paradoxes of food: how Food is both individual and social, reveals both distinction and conformity, and, in the contemporary era, seems to come from everywhere but nowhere in particular.
This popular text, now in a third edition, offers readers a vivid perspective on the cultural and social complexities of Food practices and the current Food system
