Food, health, and identity / edited by Pat Caplan. - xii, 280 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

List of contributors -- Preface and acknowledgements -- Approaches to the study of food, health and identity -- Family meals - a thing of the past? -- Marriages, weddings and their cakes -- How British is British food? -- Fast food/spoiled identity: Iranian migrants in the British catering trade -- 'Bacon sandwiches got the better of me': meat-eating and vegetarianism in South-East London -- Urban pleasure? On the meaning of eating out in a northern city -- 'We never eat like this at home': food on holiday -- Too hard to swallow? The palatability of healthy eating advice -- Being told what to eat: conversations in a Diabetes Day Centre -- Health, eating and heart attacks: Glaswegian Punjabi women's thinking about everyday food -- Scaremonger or scapegoat? The role of the media in the emergence of food as a social issue -- Declining meat: past, present... and future imperfect? -- Index. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13.

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Food habits--Great Britain
Diet--Great Britain

GT2853.G7 / F66 1997

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