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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790766003321

Titolo

Food & drink : the cultural context / / edited by Donald Sloan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford : , : Goodfellow Publishers Limited, , 2013

ISBN

1-908999-05-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vi, 245 pages) : illustrations, portraits

Collana

Gale eBooks

Oxford Gastronomica series

Disciplina

306.4

Soggetti

Food habits

Food consumption - Cross-cultural studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

An agenda for food studies / Donald Sloan -- Food, drink and identity / Peter Lugosi -- Food and drink : the declining importance of cultural context? / George Ritzer and Anya Galli -- Food ethics / Rebecca Hawkins -- Food of the scattered people / Jessica B. Harris -- Embedding food and drink cultures : the case of Burgundy / Claude Chapuis and Benoit Lecat -- Truffles and radishes : food and wine at the opera / Fred Plotkin -- Selling culture : the growth of wine tourism / Damien Wilson -- Exploring China : a personal perspective / Ken Hom, with Donald Sloan -- Marketing the fertile crescent : the reinvention of the public market tradition in New Orleans / Richard McCarthy -- Jane Grigson / Geraldene Holt -- Food memories / Yasmin Alibhai-Brown -- Devon and its evolving food culture / Mark Millon -- Transylvania Fest : an itinerant food and culture festival / Pamela Ratiu and Rares Craiut, with Donald Sloan -- Australia's culinary 'coming out' / Richard Robinson -- Taking a light glass in Soho / Paul Bloomfield -- Give a dog a bad name : British cooking and its place on the culinary leader board / Charles Campion.

Sommario/riassunto

This book provides a comprehensive and academically rigorous introduction to a range of key themes in the field of food, drink and culture.