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Food, health, and identity / edited by Pat Caplan.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 1997Description: xii, 280 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0415156793
  • 9780415156790
  • 0415156807
  • 9780415156806
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 394.120941 21
LOC classification:
  • GT2853.G7 F66 1997
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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