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Food Words - Essays in Culinary Culture (Hardcover, New)
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Food Words - Essays in Culinary Culture (Hardcover, New)
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Food Words is a series of provocative essays on some of the most
important keywords in the emergent field of food studies, focusing
on current controversies and on-going debates. Words like 'choice'
and 'convenience' are often used as explanatory terms in
understanding consumer behavior but are clearly ideological in the
way they reflect particular positions and serve specific interests,
while words like 'taste' and 'value' are no less complex and
contested. Inspired by Raymond Williams, Food Words traces the
multiple meanings of each of our keywords, tracking nuances in
different (academic, commercial and policy) contexts. Mapping the
dynamic meanings of each term, the book moves forward from critical
assessment to active intervention -- an attitude that is reflected
in the lively, sometimes combative, style of the essays. Each essay
is research-based and fully referenced but accessible to the
general reader. With a foreword by eminent food scholar Warren
Belasco, Professor of American Studies at the University of
Maryland-Baltmore County, and written by an inter-disciplinary team
associated with the CONANX research project (Consumer culture in an
'age of anxiety'), Food Words will be essential reading for food
scholars across the arts, humanities and social sciences.
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