Consuming passions : food in the age of anxiety
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Consuming passions : food in the age of anxiety
Mandolin, 1998
- : pbk
- Other Title
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Unites scientists, social scientists and those working in the humanities in a call for food to be studied more in universities across disciplines. Subjects covered in this book range from BSE and E.coli to the treatment of food in literature and art.
Table of Contents
- Consumer anxiety: towards a food democracy, Tim Lang
- dining with death, Hugh Pennington
- mad cows and Englishmen, Richard Lacey
- setting food standards, Philip James
- the "Yuk" factor, Derek Burke
- cooking with kids, Prue Leith
- banana bills, David Bederman
- a vegetarian philosophy, Peter Singer
- feeding the world, Tim Dyson
- unequal health, Ann Ralph
- waist not, want not, David Booth and Mary Douglas
- the nation's diet, Ann Murcott
- the prawn cocktail ritual, Alan Warde
- ask the family, Roger Dickinson. Comfort food: interpreting starvation, Susie Orbach
- kitchen revolution, Brian Harrison
- savouring the antique, Emily Gowers
- cooking the cannibals, William Arens
- the evolution of appetites, Geoffrey Harrison
- consuming nations, Shannon Peckham
- feasting in the dark, Ian Christie
- flesh sweeter than honey, Graham Ward
- edible ecriture, Terry Eagleton.
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