Food, health and identity / / editor, Pat Caplan

• Pubblicazione: London : , : Routledge, , 1997
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 280 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 394.1/2/0941
• Soggetto topico: Food habits - Great Britain; Diet - Great Britain
• Altri autori: CaplanPatricia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of contributors; Preface and acknowledgements; 1 Approaches to the study of food, health and identity; 2 Family meals - a thing of the past?; 3 Marriages, weddings and their cakes; 4 How British is British food?; 5 Fast food/spoiled identity: Iranian migrants in the British catering trade; 6 'Bacon sandwiches got the better of me': meat-eating and vegetarianism in South-East London; 7 Urban pleasure? On the meaning of eating out in a northern city; 8 'We never eat like this at home': food on holiday ; 9 Too hard to swallow? The palatability of healthy eating advice 10 Being told what to eat: conversations in a Diabetes Day Centre; 11 Health, eating and heart attacks: Glaswegian Punjabi women's thinking about everyday food; 12 Scaremonger or scapegoat? The role of the media in the emergence of food as a social issue; 13 Declining meat: past, present ... and future imperfect?; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: By addressing the issue of food and eating in Britain today, this book considers the way in which our food habits are changing, and shows how social and personal identities and perceptions of health and risk influence choices.
• Titolo autorizzato: Food, health and identity
• ISBN: 1-134-72999-5; 1-134-73000-4; 1-280-05075-6; 0-203-44379-9; 0-203-27604-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996199877303316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno