Food for thought : a multidisciplinary discussion /
edited by Robert Scott Stewart and Susan A. Korol.
- 261 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction -- Food, self and other -- Food, consumption and why cooking matters/ Kima Cargill -- Filling the empty self: fat, community and happiness/ R. S. Stewart -- Fear of fat, love of lean: a historical account of body shape and obesity through art and sculpture/ Louis Grivetti -- Introducing the diet industry's BFFs: modern cultural practices of obesity/ Sue Korol -- From lobster suppers to combination pizza: food performance in Cape Breton/ Ian Brodie -- Food and health -- The choice to breastfeed: examining breastfeeding through the multifaceted lens of health literacy/ Doris Gillis -- The impact of health promotion practices on mothers' food choices -- Food resources, justice and sustainability -- Sea of plenty? Histrical trends, current issues and future perspectives on our use of seafood/ Heike Lotze -- Fishing for a future: challenges for a sustainable lobster fishery/ Timothy Rawlings and Bruce Hatcher -- Globalisation and food security: issues and challenges of small-holder farmers in the global south/ Yogesh Ghore -- Food securitychallenges: a consideration of Zambia and Zimbabwe in comparison to India/ Edwin MacLellan and David MacCorquodale -- Food and politics -- The political philosophy of the slow food movement/ Geoff Andrews -- The question of elitism in the slow food movement. Part I. 1. 2. 3. 4. 6. Part II. 7. 8. Part III. 9. 10. 11. 12. Part IV. 13. 14.