Food, Health and Identity
1st Edition
Published on 15. April 2013
296 pages
978-1-134-73000-1 (ISBN)
Description
By addressing the issue of food and eating in Britain today this collection considers the ways in which food habits are changing and shows how social and personal identities and perceptions of health risk influence people's food choices.
The articles explore, among other issues:
* the family meal
* wedding cakes
* nostalgia and the invention of tradition
* the rise of vegetarianism
* the recent BSE crisis
* the `creolization' of British food eating out
* creation of individual identity through lifestyle.
The contributors include Hanna Bradby, Simon Charsley, Allison James, Anne Keane, Lydia Martens and Alan Warde.
The articles explore, among other issues:
* the family meal
* wedding cakes
* nostalgia and the invention of tradition
* the rise of vegetarianism
* the recent BSE crisis
* the `creolization' of British food eating out
* creation of individual identity through lifestyle.
The contributors include Hanna Bradby, Simon Charsley, Allison James, Anne Keane, Lydia Martens and Alan Warde.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
File size
3,87 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-134-73000-1 (9781134730001)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Pat Caplan
Food, Health and Identity
Book
08/1997
1st Edition
Routledge
€74.30
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Person
Pat Caplan
Content
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; 6: 'Bacon sandwiches got the better of me'; 7: Urban pleasure?; 8: 'We never eat like this at home'; 9: Too hard to swallow?; 10: Being told what to eat; 11: Health, eating and heart attacks; 12: Scaremonger or scapegoat?; 13: Declining meat
