Food, health, and identity /
By addressing the issue of food and eating in Britain today, this book considers the way in which our food habits are changing, and shows how social and personal identities and perceptions of health and risk influence choices.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
1997.
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| ISBN: | 0203276043 9780203276044 0203443799 9780203443798 9786610050758 6610050759 9781134730001 1134730004 9781134729951 1134729952 9781134729999 1134729995 1280050756 9781280050756 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Approaches to the study of food, health and identity / Pat Caplan
- 2. Family meals : a thing of the past? / Anne Murcott
- 3. Marriages, weddings and their cakes / Simon Charsley
- 4. How British is British food? / Allison James
- 5. Fast food/spoiled identity : Iranian migrants in the British catering trade / Lynn Harbottle
- 6. 'Bacon sandwiches got the better of me' : meat-eating and vegetarianism in South-East London / Anna Willetts
- 7. Urban pleasure? On the meaning of eating out in a northern city / Lydia Martens and Alan Warde
- 8. 'We never eat like this at home' : food on holiday / Janice Williams
- 9. Too hard to swallow? The palatability of healthy eating advice / Anne Keane
- 10. Being told what to eat : conversations in a Diabetes Day Centre / Simon Cohn
- 11. Health, eating and heart attacks : Glaswegian Punjabi women's thinking about everyday food / Hannah Bradby
- 12. Scaremonger or scapegoat? The role of the media in the emergence of food as a social issue / Jacquie Reilly and David Miller
- 13. Declining meat : past, present ... and future imperfect? / Nick Fiddes.