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Conversations With Food
Contributor(s): Chansky, Dorothy (Editor), Tracy, Sarah W. (Editor), Marx De Salcedo, Anastacia (Foreword by)
ISBN: 1648890768     ISBN-13: 9781648890765
Publisher: Vernon Press
OUR PRICE:   $45.60  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: September 2020
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Agriculture & Food
- Political Science | Public Policy - Agriculture & Food Policy
- Technology & Engineering | Food Science - General
Dewey: 394.12
LCCN: 2020939569
Physical Information: 0.53" H x 6" W x 9" (0.76 lbs) 254 pages
 
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Conversations With Food offers readers an array of essays revealing the power of food (and its absence) to transform relationships between the human and non-human realms; to define national, colonial, and postcolonial cultures; to help instantiate race, gender, and class relations; and to serve as the basis for policymaking. Food functions in these contexts as items in religious or secular law, as objects with which to bargain or over which to fight, as literary trope, and as a way to improve or harm health--individual or collective. The anthology ranges from Ancient Greece to the posthuman fairy underworld; from the codifying of French culinary heritage to the strategic marketing of 100-calorie snacks; from the European famine after the Second World War to the lush and exotic cuisines of culinary tourism today. Conversations With Food will engage anyone interested in discovering the disciplinary breadth and depth of food studies. The anthology is ideally suited for introductory and advanced courses in food studies, as it includes essays in a range of humanities and social science disciplines, and each author draws cross-disciplinary linkages between their own work and other essays in the volume. This thematic and conceptual intercalation, when read with the editors' introduction, makes the collection an exceptionally strong representation of the field of food studies.