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Consuming Passions : Food In The Age Of Anxiety

  • Consuming Passions : Food In The Age Of Anxiety
  • Attribution

    edited by Sian Griffiths and Jennifer Wallace
  • Publication Details

    Book, Manchester University Press, 1998
  • Availability

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      (UPPER LEVEL)  TX357 .C56 1998         AVAILABLE

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  • Description

    This book unites scientists, social scientists and those working in the humanities in a call for food to be studied more in universities across disciplines–and for those involved in its study no longer to be marginalized. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
  • Authors

  • Subject

  • Contents

    • Introduction / Jennifer Wallace
    • 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 humanity / Tim Dyson. Unequal health / Ann Ralph. Waist not, want not / David Booth. Coded messages / Mary Douglas. The nation’s diet / Anne Murcott. The prawn cocktail ritual / Alan Warde and Lydia Martens. Ask the family / Roger Dickinson and Simon Leader
    • Comfort food. Interpreting starvation / Susie Orbach. The kitchen revolution / Brian Harrison. Savouring the antique / Emily Gowers. Cooking the cannibals / William Arens. The evolution of appetites / Geoffrey Ainsworth Harrison. Consuming nations / Shannan Peckham. Feasting in the dark / Ian Christie. Flesh sweeter than honey / Graham Ward. Edible ecriture / Terry Eagleton
  • ISBN

    • 0719053110
    • 9780719053115
  • LCCN

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