ABSTRACT

The classic book that helped to define and legitimize the field of food and culture studies is now available, with major revisions, in a specially affordable e-book version (978-0-203-07975-1). 

The third edition includes 40 original essays and reprints of previously published classics under 5 Sections: FOUNDATIONS, HEGEMONY AND DIFFERENCE, CONSUMPTION AND EMBODIMENT, FOOD AND GLOBALIZATION, and CHALLENGING, CONTESTING, AND TRANSFORMING THE FOOD SYSTEM.

17 of the 40 articles included are either, new to this edition, rewritten by their original authors, or edited by Counihan and van Esterik. 

A bank of test items applicable to each article in the book is available to instructors interested in selecting this edition for course use. Simply send an e.mail to the publisher at companionaccess@informa.com.

part |2 pages

Hegemony and Difference: Race, Class, and Gender

chapter 14|24 pages

Feeding Lesbigay Families

chapter 16|12 pages

The Raw and the Rotten: Punk Cuisine

part |2 pages

Consumption and Embodiment

part |2 pages

Food and Globalization

part |2 pages

Challenging, Contesting, and Transforming the Food System

chapter 33|11 pages

The Chain Never Stops