Consumption, food and taste [[electronic resource] ] : culinary antinomies and commodity culture / / Alan Warde

• Autore: Warde Alan
• Pubblicazione: London, : SAGE, 1997
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (241 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.4
• Soggetto topico: Food habits - Great Britain; Consumer behavior - Great Britain; Food - Social aspects
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p.[221]-226) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I - Issues of Taste; Chapter 1 - Consumption, Taste and Social Change; Chapter 2 - The New Manners of Food: Trends and their Sociological Interpretation; Chapter 3 - Measuring Change in Taste; Part II - Indicators of Taste: Changing Food Habits; Chapter 4 - Novelty and Tradition; Chapter 5 - Health and Indulgence; Chapter 6 - Economy and Extravagance; Chapter 7 - Convenience and Care; Part III - Interpretations of Taste; Chapter 8 - The Reconstruction of Taste; Chapter 9 - Theories of Consumption and the Case of Food; Notes ; Appendix: Technical Details about MethodologyReferences; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Using food as a case study of consumption and the expression of taste, Warde outlines various theories of change in the 20th century and suggests that consumption is best viewed as a process of continual selection from a range of accessible items.
• Titolo autorizzato: Consumption, Food And Taste
• ISBN: 0-8039-7972-X; 1-283-88183-7; 1-4462-6416-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910451940303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II