Unites scientists, social scientists and those working in the humanities in a call for food to be studied more in universities across disciplines. Subjects covered in this book range from BSE and E.coli to the treatment of food in literature and art.
Consuming Passions
Consuming Passions
Summary
Unites scientists, social scientists and those working in the humanities in a call for food to be studied more in universities across disciplines. Subjects covered in this book range from BSE and E.coli to the treatment of food in literature and art.
Consuming Passions Summary
Table of Contents
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 the world, Tim Dyson; unequal health, Ann Ralph; waist not, want not, David Booth and Mary Douglas; the nation's diet, Ann Murcott; the prawn cocktail ritual, Alan Warde; ask the family, Roger Dickinson. Comfort food: interpreting starvation, Susie Orbach; kitchen revolution, Brian Harrison; savouring the antique, Emily Gowers; cooking the cannibals, William Arens; the evolution of appetites, Geoffrey Harrison; consuming nations, Shannon Peckham; feasting in the dark, Ian Christie; flesh sweeter than honey, Graham Ward; edible ecriture, Terry Eagleton.
Additional information
GOR002889519
9781901341065
1901341062
Consuming Passions by
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Manchester University Press
1998-06-18
256
N/A
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