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Book SynopsisFood Ethics: The Basics is a concise yet comprehensive introduction to the ethical dimensions of the production and consumption of food. It offers an impartial exploration of the most prominent ethical questions relating to food and agriculture, including: Should we eat animals? Are locally produced foods ethically superior to globally sourced foods? Do people in affluent nations have a responsibility to help reduce global hunger? Should we embrace bioengineered foods? What should be the role of government in promoting food safety and public health? This second edition has been revised and updated throughout, not only to take in the latest empirical and policy information, but also to address the impact of major issues such as the COVID-19 pandemic, Russiaâs invasion of Ukraine, AI and machine learning, and the rapid growth of the gig economy.Using extensive data and real-world examples, as well as providing suggestions for further reading, Food Ethics: The Basics is an ideal introduction for anyone interested in the ethics of food.Trade ReviewPraise for the first edition:"The book provides a balanced perspective for each contemporary issue as well as arguments supporting and opposing debatable benefits and risks of food production and consumption issues. The philosophical perspectives are clearly written, the technical details are jargon free, and the science is accurate... A useful resource for public policy and agricultural libraries...Summing Up: Recommended." - B. R. Shmaefsky, CHOICE"Sandler makes a good job introducing the topic of food ethics to the reader, offering a broad range of information and describing key underlying ethical enquiries and particular views on each of the topics presented. (...) Reading this book was helpful in the sense that it provided insight into a topic that has not been widely studied or discussed. Thus, it can be a valuable introduction to food ethics, while encouraging the reader to explore more about this project." - Natalie Herdoiza Castro, Utrecht University, The NetherlandsTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Food systems 2. Food security and the ethics of assistance 3. Should we eat animals? 4. Technology: Bioengineering and big data 5. Food and Health 6. Food and Culture. Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book addresses the various forms of deviance and criminality found within the conventional food system. This systemmade up of numerous producers, processors, distributors, and retailers of foodhas significant, far-reaching consequences bearing upon the environment and society.Food Crime broadly outlines the processes and impacts of this food system most relevant for the academic discipline of criminology, with a focus on the negative health outcomes of the US diet (e.g., obesity and diabetes) and negative outcomes associated with the system itself (e.g., environmental degradation). The author introduces the concept of food criminology, a new branch of criminology dedicated to the study of deviance in the food industry. Demonstrating the deviance and criminality involved in many parts of the conventional food system, this book is the first to provide exhaustive coverage of the major issues related to what can be considered food crime. Embedded in the context of stTable of ContentsChapter 1: An Introduction to "Food Crimes"Chapter 2: The Conventional Food SystemChapter 3: What Americans Eat Chapter 4: The Food IS the Crime: Putting the Food Back into "Food Crime"Chapter 5: Food AddictionChapter 6: Harms Associated with What We Eat Chapter 7: Harms Associated with the SystemChapter 8: Culpability for Food CrimesChapter 9: Economic Benefits of the Food SystemChapter 10: Summary and the FutureReferences

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Book SynopsisThis book is about food and feeding in early childhood education and care, offering an exploration of the intersection of children's food, education, family intervention, and public health policies.The notion of good' food for children is often communicated as a matter of common sense by policymakers and public health authorities; yet the social, material, and practical aspects of feeding children are far from straightforward. Drawing on a detailed ethnographic study conducted in a London nursery and children's centre, this book provides a close examination of the practices of childcare practitioners, children, and parents, asking how the universalism of policy and bureaucracy fits with the particularism of feeding and eating in the early years. Looking at the unintended consequences that emerged in the field, such as contradictory public health messaging and arbitrary policy interventions, the book reveals the harmful assumptions about disadvantaged groups that are perpetuatTable of ContentsIntroductionChapter 1. Rethinking responsibility? The state in children’s everyday livesChapter 3. The food industry and its contradictionsChapter 4. Feeding children in a childcare settingChapter 5. Children’s eating practices in childcareChapter 6. Food and parenting in the mixed economy of welfareChapter 7. Mothers and foodworkConclusion

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Book SynopsisIn Food, John Coveney examines food as ' identity, politics, industry, regulation, the environment, justice and gastronomy. He explores how food helps us understand what it means to be human.The centrality of food in life, and the importance of food as life, is undeniable. As a source of biological substrates, personal pleasure and political power, food is and has been an enduring requirement of human biological, social and cultural existence. In recent years, interest in food has increased across the academic, public and popular spheres, fuelled by popular media's constant play on the role of food and body size, and food and cooking, as a mass spectacle for TV audiences. Through food, we construct our social identities, our families and communities. However, Coveney also highlights the tensions between the industrialisation of food, the environment, and the iniquitous distribution of food. He also considers how the food industries, on which most of us musTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Food as…identity 2. Food as…politics 3. Food as…industry 4. Food as…regulation 5. Food as…the environment 6. Food as…justice 7. Food as…gastronomy 8. Food as…humanness

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Book SynopsisThis book provides in-depth perspectives on communal food and dining practices. In doing so, it challenges less sustainable lifestyles that are encouraged by a social system based on unlimited economic growth.In considering the diverse societal settings in which individuals and communities eat, the book offers opportunities to reflect on the concept of belongingness, or the lack of it, when eating. It examines what, how, and why we eat together and considers what the future of our food and eating may look like. A wide range of themes are explored, with examples from Finland, Algeria, Europe, and Asia drawing on topics such as and cases for interdisciplinary research, such as environmental impact, social inclusion, happiness, health, and well-being, to name a few of the areas where the importance of eating together is stressed across disciplines. The book explores the lived experience of diners and the contexts in which commensality takes place in the family circle and in commTrade Review"Eating together, both with family and friends and with strangers, is surely one of the oldest customs we have -- a gateway to bonding family and community. Now universally less common as an everyday event, it remains nonetheless a focal point for casual social engagement. This book has much to tell us about the decline of family dinners in favour of fast food in front of the TV, as well as much to remind us about what we are missing."-Professor Robin Dunbar – Experimental psychology, University of Oxford “This volume does important work for the interdisciplinary field of food studies because it provides broader theoretical and empirical perspectives on conviviality, commensality, and the art of eating. The editors have gathered a set of thought-provoking case studies and theoretical reflections on the relationship between marketplace ideologies, social norms, and community and family life.”-Professor Benedetta Cappellini – Durham University Business SchoolTable of ContentsIntroduction Tamas Lestari. Eating together in the family circle (case studies)1. TV or not TV? A comparison of children and young peoples’ experiences of conviviality in Spain and the UK.Surinder Phull2. Negotiating food, negotiating family well-being: eating together in Algerian modern familiesSouad Birady and Hichem Sofiene Salaouatchi3. Dining together with family and mental well-being of young people: A study conducted in four Asian countriesSeyedeh Khadijeh Taghizadeh, Syed Abidur Rahman & Behnaz Saboori4. Swedengate – When commensality norms collideHåkan Jönsson ii. Eating together in communities (case studies)5. Bringing the nation (back) together: The Big Jubilee Lunch in the UK (2022)Malgorzata Radomska 6. Potluck in the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Two auto-ethnographic accountsTamas Lestar & Jason Garcia Portilla7. Eating together – staff members’ perceptions of a social lunch meal in kindergartenHege Wergedahl8. Plant-Based lunch in school: Eating Together as a means to promote sustainable and healthy eatingMalliga Marimuthu9. The influence of local gastronomy on tourist behavioural intentions: a case of Saharan cuisineGhidouche Faouzi, Nechoud Lamia & Ait-Yahia Ghidouche Kamilaiii. Theorising the present and future practice of eating together10. Commensality and identification in a Christian context: stable and transient elementsStephanos Avakian, Pavlos Stavrakakis11. Being here, being there: eating and drinking together as a socially constructed issueHugues Séraphin, Shem Wambugu Maingi & Maximiliano Korstanje12. The evolution in Nordic eating and commensality: a focus on solitary eating practices in FinlandSilvia Gaiani13. The banquet in Western Hospitality: a descriptive reading of Culinary TourismMaximiliano Korstanje14. Beyond conviviality: Facets of Eating TogetherNicklas Neuman & Håkan JönssonConclusions Tamas Lestar

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Book SynopsisThis is a book about food, philosophy, and intellectual property rights.Taken separately, these are three well-known subjects, but it is uncommon to consider them together. The book comprises 50 case studies, organized around eight themes: images; genericity and descriptiveness; language traps; procedures; menus, recipes, and creativity; boundaries; biotech; and empowerment. The introductory chapter frames the selection of cases and encourages readers to look beyond them, envisaging new lenses to look at food vis-à-vis intellectual property. The terrain encompassed is wide-ranging and reaches out to fine-grained aspects of food products, recipes, and cooking. Conceived for a wide scope of readers, the volume ultimately interrogates the links between food and cultural identity, bringing to the fore the ethical, political, and aesthetic worth of culinary arts and gastronomic experiences.This accessible book will be of value to scholars, students, practitioners, and other

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Book SynopsisThe Psychopolitics of Food probes into the contemporary foodscape', examining culinary practices and food habits and in particular the ways in which they conflate with neoliberal political economy. It suggests that generic alimentary and culinary practices constitute technologies of the self and the body and argues that the contemporary preoccupation with food takes the form of rites of passage' that express and mark the transition from a specific stage of neoliberal development to another vis-à-vis a re-configuration of the alimentary and sexual regimes. Even though these rites of passage are taking place on the borders of cultural bi-polarities, their function, nevertheless, is precisely to define these borders as sites of a neoliberal transitional demand; that is, to produce a cultural bifurcation between eating orders' and eating dis-orders', by promoting and naturalising certain social logics while simultaneously rendering others as abject and anachronistTrade Review'In The Psychopolitics of Food, Mihalis Mentinis offers a thoughtful and original analysis of the contemporary foodscape in relation to neoliberalism. From an extension of the critical analysis of the "celebrity chef" to a consideration of the psychopolitical function of placentophagy, the book is well-grounded in food studies scholarship while extending this work in provocative ways. Its global perspective is particularly welcome as it uses Chile and Greece as informative case studies that interrogate the role of food in these countries’ neoliberal transformations. And the final chapter provides an insightful engagement with anorexia that shifts away from a psycho-pathological approach to one that reads it as a form of culinary resistance to neoliberalism. Overall, the book’s exploration of how culinary rites of passage contribute to neoliberal development is both theoretically rich yet accessible to all readers. It marks an important intervention in the trajectory of food studies scholarship.' – Peter Naccarato, Professor of English & World Literatures, Marymount Manhattan College, USA'The uniqueness and strength of this thought provoking book is its focus on a very ordinary function in everyday life: eating practices. By focusing on food consumption, Mentinis clearly depicts how neoliberal transformation of our societies does not only affect our lives abstractly somewhere in the "economy" but that it is inextricably intertwined in the restructuring of the very fabric of our daily life practices.' – Athanasios Marvakis, Professor in Clinical Social Psychology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece‘A disturbing book that shows that our cooking culture boom is committed to the transformation of everyday forms of life into a cannibalistic/anorectic form of exploitation. A front-line exercise of grounded and cunning critique of ideology, opening truly new questions and insights for social theory and research, as well as for the lay understanding that the global path to our future is concretely passing through our own culinary/alimentary/sexual regimes.’ – Andrés Haye, Associate Professor and member of the Interdisciplinary Center for Intercultural and Indigenous Studies at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, ChileTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsPrefaceDedicationTable of contentsIntroduction: Culinary Rites of Passage in the Neoliberal AgeChapter 1: From Unemployment to ‘Creative’ Adaptability: Romanticised Chefs and the Psychopolitics of Gastroporn Chapter 2: From the Semiotic to the Symbolic: Placentophagy and the Name-of- the-ChefChapter 3: From Colonialism to Neoliberal Multiculturalism: A Mapuche Spice in the Chilean National CuisineChapter 4: From East to West: Economic Crisis and the Cooking of the New GreeksChapter 5: From Eating to Starving: Gastrosexual Men and Anorectic WomenConclusion: Towards a Theory of Anorectic Cannibalism ReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisIn the world's most affluent and food secure societies, why is it now publicly acceptable to feed donated surplus food, dependent on corporate food waste, to millions of hungry people? While recognizing the moral imperative to feed hungry people, this book challenges the effectiveness, sustainability and moral legitimacy of globally entrenched corporate food banking as the primary response to rich world food poverty. It investigates the prevalence and causes of domestic hunger and food waste in OECD member states, the origins and thirty-year rise of US style charitable food banking, and its institutionalization and corporatization. It unmasks the hidden functions of transnational corporate food banking which construct domestic hunger as a matter for charity thereby allowing indifferent and austerity-minded governments to ignore increasing poverty and food insecurity and their moral, legal and political obligations, under international law, to realize the right to foodTrade Review"I’m not sure how I missed this one when it came out. It’s really good. It is a tough analysis of the politics of charitable food—the institutionalized use of corporate food waste to feed hungry people, largely in OECD countries but also in the U.S." Marion Nestle, https://www.foodpolitics.com/"Riches provides a passionate insider’s account of the current system and politics of food banking in OECD countries … [T]his is a powerfully-written text, which makes essential reading for students and teachers of social policy and, indeed, activists seeking to understand how to reform the current food banking system in the rich nations of the world." - Rana Jawad, Journal of Social Policy, 2019"This is a shocking book. Shocking in its contents; shocking in that it is needed now, more than ever; and shocking to me. I have worked on food, poverty, and policy response for nearly 40 years, yet so much here comes as new or into the sharpest possible focus. Food Bank Nations is a passionately argued and evidenced polemic against the neoliberal capture of charitable response to local experiences of poverty, manifested as people ‘going hungry’, in some of the richest nations on earth. Graham Riches takes on the corporate invasion and capture of what is often portrayed as ordinary people - ‘good hearted folks’ - trying to help out their neighbours who aren’t able to feed themselves adequately by giving them food." - From the Foreword, Elizabeth Dowler, Emeritus Professor Food and Social Policy, University of Warwick, UK"Against a backdrop of increasing food insecurity in OECD countries, Riches' examination of food banking reveals the extent to which ‘Big Food’ and privatized food charity have well and truly moved into the spaces left by retreating neoliberal governments. Beyond the food drives, celebrity endorsement, smiling volunteers and government legislated tax incentives, this book documents the juggernaut that is global food banking. Despite being a thorn in the side of many ‘primary duty bearers’, rights-based approaches to food offer promise as an effective counterweight to slow the progress of the foodbank juggernaut and reclaim public policy." - Dr. Sue Booth, Flinders University, Australia"Graham Riches’ in-depth analysis of the way food banking has entrenched itself in the neoliberal agenda and public discourse calls for a change in ‘the conversation about domestic hunger from corporate charity to the right to food’. This book makes a significant contribution to this new conversation, arguing that civil society across OECD countries can and should hold the ‘indifferent States’ to account for their failure to ensure dignified access to good food for all when they so clearly have both the means and the duty to do so." - Pete Ritchie, Nourish Scotland, UK "Can’t we do better than food banks? Graham Riches moves the needle from charity to the human right to adequate food and nutrition. He describes how capital-soaked transnational corporations monopolize public policy, blame poverty on the poor, and endorse themselves as the publically-subsidized solution. Riches’ alternative vision, rooted in social solidarity examples, rebuilds the social contract between civil society and its governments through democratically evolved plans, transparent monitoring, and the active participation and leadership of policies’ most affected publics." - Anne C Bellows, Professor Food Studies, Syracuse University, USA, and Board Member, FIAN International."Graham Riches's book is essential reading for anyone wanting to understand why problems of hunger and food insecurity are unabated in countries where food banks become established as the primary response." - Valerie Tarasuk, University of Toronto, Canada "Graham Riches serves us all well with this analysis of modern food poverty. This book reminds us how the slow erosion of notions of welfare and decency, under the neo-liberal assault since the late 1970s, has created a world - even in rich countries - where charity and crumbs from the table now replace food justice. We should all read, consider, and then start planning how to win a better food system again." - Tim Lang, Professor of Food Policy, City, University of London, UK"Food Bank Nations" is an up-to-date and important book for anyone dealing with issues of poverty, social exclusion and the transformation of welfare systems in rich industrial societies. A particular strength of the book is that it uses the Food Banks to trace the transnational developments of recent decades. It shows how volunteers, sponsors and government support continue to promote charitable food aid, which is mainly associated with the name "Food Banks" or "Tables" in Germany." - Dr. Stephan Lorenz, Prof. at the Jena Institute of Sociology, Friedrich-Schiller University, Germany "Graham Riches’ book provides sharp critical analysis of current food banks." - George Kent, University of Hawai'i'..as Graham Riches documents in his important new book, Food Bank Nations: Poverty, Corporate Charity and the Right to Food, starting in the 1980s and continuing through today, many industrialized nations began making the same mistakes as the U.S. by increasing their societal reliance on food charities while reducing protections for workers and available social services' - Joel Berg, Hunger Free America"Riches provides a passionate insider’s account of the current system and politics of food banking in OECD countries … [T]his is a powerfully-written text, which makes essential reading for students and teachers of social policy and, indeed, activists seeking to understand how to reform the current food banking system in the rich nations of the world." - Rana Jawad, Journal of Social Policy, 2019"This is a shocking book. Shocking in its contents; shocking in that it is needed now, more than ever; and shocking to me. I have worked on food, poverty, and policy response for nearly 40 years, yet so much here comes as new or into the sharpest possible focus. Food Bank Nations is a passionately argued and evidenced polemic against the neoliberal capture of charitable response to local experiences of poverty, manifested as people ‘going hungry’, in some of the richest nations on earth. Graham Riches takes on the corporate invasion and capture of what is often portrayed as ordinary people - ‘good hearted folks’ - trying to help out their neighbours who aren’t able to feed themselves adequately by giving them food." - From the Foreword, Elizabeth Dowler, Emeritus Professor Food and Social Policy, University of Warwick, UK"Against a backdrop of increasing food insecurity in OECD countries, Riches' examination of food banking reveals the extent to which ‘Big Food’ and privatized food charity have well and truly moved into the spaces left by retreating neoliberal governments. Beyond the food drives, celebrity endorsement, smiling volunteers and government legislated tax incentives, this book documents the juggernaut that is global food banking. Despite being a thorn in the side of many ‘primary duty bearers’, rights-based approaches to food offer promise as an effective counterweight to slow the progress of the foodbank juggernaut and reclaim public policy." - Dr. Sue Booth, Flinders University, Australia"Graham Riches’ in-depth analysis of the way food banking has entrenched itself in the neoliberal agenda and public discourse calls for a change in ‘the conversation about domestic hunger from corporate charity to the right to food’. This book makes a significant contribution to this new conversation, arguing that civil society across OECD countries can and should hold the ‘indifferent States’ to account for their failure to ensure dignified access to good food for all when they so clearly have both the means and the duty to do so." - Pete Ritchie, Nourish Scotland, UK "Can’t we do better than food banks? Graham Riches moves the needle from charity to the human right to adequate food and nutrition. He describes how capital-soaked transnational corporations monopolize public policy, blame poverty on the poor, and endorse themselves as the publically-subsidized solution. Riches’ alternative vision, rooted in social solidarity examples, rebuilds the social contract between civil society and its governments through democratically evolved plans, transparent monitoring, and the active participation and leadership of policies’ most affected publics." - Anne C Bellows, Professor Food Studies, Syracuse University, USA, and Board Member, FIAN International."Graham Riches's book is essential reading for anyone wanting to understand why problems of hunger and food insecurity are unabated in countries where food banks become established as the primary response." - Valerie Tarasuk, University of Toronto, Canada "Graham Riches serves us all well with this analysis of modern food poverty. This book reminds us how the slow erosion of notions of welfare and decency, under the neo-liberal assault since the late 1970s, has created a world - even in rich countries - where charity and crumbs from the table now replace food justice. We should all read, consider, and then start planning how to win a better food system again." - Tim Lang, Professor of Food Policy, City, University of London, UK"Food Bank Nations" is an up-to-date and important book for anyone dealing with issues of poverty, social exclusion and the transformation of welfare systems in rich industrial societies. A particular strength of the book is that it uses the Food Banks to trace the transnational developments of recent decades. It shows how volunteers, sponsors and government support continue to promote charitable food aid, which is mainly associated with the name "Food Banks" or "Tables" in Germany." - Dr. Stephan Lorenz, Prof. at the Jena Institute of Sociology, Friedrich-Schiller University, Germany "Graham Riches’ book provides sharp critical analysis of current food banks." - George Kent, University of Hawai'i'..as Graham Riches documents in his important new book, Food Bank Nations: Poverty, Corporate Charity and the Right to Food, starting in the 1980s and continuing through today, many industrialized nations began making the same mistakes as the U.S. by increasing their societal reliance on food charities while reducing protections for workers and available social services' - Joel Berg, Hunger Free AmericaTable of Contents1. Introduction: wasted food for hungry people Part I DOMESTIC HUNGER to CHARITABLE FOOD BANKING 2. Food poverty and rich world hunger 3. The rise of Food Bank Nations Part II CORPORATE CAPTURE 4. Corporate capture and rich world consolidation 5. Corporate food waste manufacturing surplus food 6. Corporate food banking: solution or problem 7. Corporate food charity: false promises of solidarity Part III RIGHTS TALK and PUBLIC POLICY 8. Collective Solidarity and the Right to food: moral, legal and political obligations 9. Public Accountability and the Right to Food: international monitoring to the rescue 10. Civil society with a right to food bite: reclaiming public policy Part IV GATHERING POLITICAL WILL 11. Changing the conversation: challenging propositions

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Using a political-economic approach supplemented with insights from human ecology, this volume analyzes the long-term dynamics of food security and economic growth. The book begins by discussing the nature of preindustrial food crises and the changes that have occurred since the 19th century with the ascent of technical science and the fossil fuel revolution. It explains how these changes improved living standards but that the realization of this improvement was usually dependent on government support for smallholder modernization.  The author sets out how the evolution of food security in different regions has been influenced by farm policy choices and how these choices were shaped by local societal characteristics, international relations and changing configurations in metropolitan countries. Separate chapters are devoted to the interaction of this evolution with debates on food security and economic growth and with internat

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Book SynopsisThis innovative and global best-seller helped establish food studies courses throughout the social sciences and humanities when it was first published in 1997. The fourth edition of Food and Culture contains favorite articles from earlier editions and several new pieces on food politics, globalism, agriculture, and race and gender identity.Table of ContentsPart1: Meaning and Practice; 1. Toward a Psychosociology of Contemporary Food Consumption Roland Barthes; 2. The Culinary Triangle; Claude Lévi-Strauss; 3. Deciphering a Meal Mary Douglas; 4. Japanese Mothers and Obentōs: The Lunch Box as Ideological State Apparatus Anne Allison; 5. Eating Cultures: Incorporation, Identity and Indian Food Uma Narayan; 6. Cooking Skill, the Senses, and Memory: The Fate of Practical Knowledge David Sutton; 7. Race, Place and Taste: Making Identities Through Sensory Experience in Ecuador Emily Walmsley; 8. The Raw & the Rotten: Punk Cuisine Dylan Clark; Part 2: Representation and identity; 10. Short excerpt from Distinction Pierre Bourdieu; 11. Nourishing Arts, from The Practice of Everyday Life Luce Giard; 12. Queering Food Studies: Foodways, Heteronormativity and Hungry Women in Chicana Lesbian Literature Julia Ehrhardt; 13. A Way Outa No Way: Eating Problems among African-American, Latina, and White Women Becky Wangsgaard Thompson; 14. Mexicanas’ Food Voice and Differential Consciousness in the San Luis Valley of Colorado Carole Counihan; 15. I haven’t Eaten if I Don’t have my Soup and Fufu: Cultural Preservation through Food and Foodways among Ghanaian Migrants in the US Psyche Williams-Forson; 16. The Signifying Dish: Autobiography and History in Two Black Women’s Cookbooks Rafia Zafar; 17. Rural Masculinity in Transition Gender Images in Tractor Advertisements Berit Brandth; 18. Authenticity in America: Class Distinctions in Potato Chip Advertising Joshua Freedman and Dan Jurafsky; Part 3: Global and Local production; 19. Industrial Food: Towards the Development of a World Cuisine Jack Goody; 20. Remaking "Traditions": How we eat what we eat and the changing political economy of food Harriet Friedmann; 21. Breast-Feeding as Food Work Penny Van Esterik; 22. On the Move for Food: Three Women Behind the Tomato’s Journey Deborah Barndt; 23. If it ain’t Alberta, It ain’t Beef: Local Food, Regional Identity and (Inter)national Politics Gwendolyn Blue; 24. From the Bottom Up: The Global Expansion of the Chinese Vegetable Trade for New York City Markets Valerie Imbruce; 25. Jolly Dogs and McSpaghetti: Anthropological Reflections on Global/Local Fast-Food Competition in the Philippines Ty Matejowsky; 26. Too hot to handle Tanachai Mark Padoongpatt; 27. "Old Stock" Tamales and Migrant Tacos: Taste, Authenticity, and the Naturalization of Mexican Food Jeffrey Pilcher; Part 4: Food Politics; 28. Time, Sugar, and Sweetness Sidney Mintz; 29. Re-purposing the master's tools: the open source seed initiative and the struggle for seed sovereignty Jack Kloppenburg; 30. Preface to the Tenth Anniversary Edition. Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health Marion Nestle; 31. The Disappearance of Hunger in America Patricia Allen 32. Rooting Out the Causes of Disease: Why Diabetes is So Common Among Desert Dwellers Gary Paul Nabhanhe Political Economy of Obesity: The Fat Pay All Alice Julier Expanding Access and Alternatives: Building Farmers’ Markets in Low-Income CommunitiesLisa Markowitz Slow Food and the politics of ‘Virtuous Globalisation"Alison Leitch Learning democracy through food justice movementsCharles Levkoe

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Book SynopsisThe recent escalation of world food prices – particularly for cereals - prompted mass public indignation and demonstrations in many countries, from the price of tortilla flour in Mexico to that of rice in the Philippines and pasta in Italy. The crisis has important implications for future government trade and food security policies, as countries re-evaluate their reliance on potentially more volatile world markets to augment domestic supplies of staple foods. This book examines how government policies caused and responded to soaring world prices in the particular case of rice, which is the world's most important source of calories for the poor. Comparable case studies of policy reactions in different countries, principally across Asia, but also including the USA, provide the understanding necessary to evaluate the impact of trade policy on the food security of poor farmers and consumers. They also provide important insights into the concerns of developing countries that are relevant for future international trade negotiations in key agricultural commodities. As a result, more appropriate policies can be put in place to ensure more stable food supplies in the future. Published with the Food and Agriculture (FAO) Organization of the United Nations Trade Review'This book, with chapters from many prominent experts, presents new evidence from the recent rice price crisis and draws lessons for preventing the next crisis. It is a unique set of references on global food security and the world rice market.' Shenggen Fan, Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) 'This book is a must-read for those who wish to understand the world rice market, trade policies and food security concerns. It provides a careful and detailed analysis of the causes and consequences of the 2007 and 2008 global rice crisis. It is written by knowledgeable experts from the key rice economy nations.' Professor Eric J. Wailes, University of Arkansas, USATable of ContentsPart I: Introduction 1. Food Crises Past, Present (and Future?): Will we ever learn? Part II: Overview: The World Rice Market and Trade Policies 2. The World Rice Market Crisis of 2007-08 3. Did Speculation Affect World Rice Prices? 4. Trade Related Policies to Ensure Food (Rice) Security in Asia Part III: Policy Responses in Traditional Importing Countries 5. Volatility in Rice Prices and Policy Responses in Bangladesh 6. Indonesia's Rice Policy And Price Stabilization Program: Managing Domestic Prices During The 2008 Crisis 7. The Rice Crisis in the Philippines: Why Did it Occur and What Are its Policy Implications? 8. West African Experience with the World Rice Crisis 2007-2008 9. Rice in Africa: Will Imports Continue to Grow? Part IV: Policy Responses in Traditional Exporting Countries 10. The Political Economy of Thailand's Rice Price and Export Policies in 2007-08 11. The Vietnamese Rice Industry During the Global Food Crisis 12. Rice Production in Cambodia: Will Exports Continue to Grow? Part V: Policy responses in China and India 13. How China Stabilized Grain Prices During the Global Price Crisis 14. Rice Policies in India in the Context of the Global Rice Price Spike Part VI: Policy Responses in the Developed Countries 15. Japan's Rice Policy and its Role in the World Rice Market: Japan Should Act as a Watchdog 16. The 'Diplomatic Crop or How the U.S. Provided Critical Leadership In Ending the Rice Crisis Part VII: Conclusion 17. Can the Next Rice Crisis be Prevented?

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Book SynopsisSusan Pinkard traces the roots and development of the French culinary revolution to many different historical trends.Trade Review'Pinkard performs careful analytical work with culinary texts familiar to many food historians …' The Journal of Interdisciplinary History'The 'revolution' narrated by Susan Pinkard is that which launched a new way of thinking about, and in part doing, cookery between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries … [a] fine book …'Table of ContentsPart I. Before the Culinary Revolution: 1. The ancient roots of medieval cooking; 2. Opulence and misery in the Renaissance; Part II. Towards a New Culinary Aesthetic: 3. Foundations of change, 1600–1650; 4. The French kitchen in the 1650s; 5. Refined consumption, 1660–1735; Part III. Cooking, Eating, and Drinking in the Enlightenment, 1735–1789: 6. Simplicity and authenticity; 7. The revolution in wine.

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Book SynopsisIn this book, Brian Hayden provides the first comprehensive, theoretical work on the history of feasting in archaeological and ethnographic perspective. The Power of Feasts chronicles the evolution of feasting behavior from its first perceptible prehistoric presence to modern industrial times in order to understand the social and political structures of past societies.Trade Review'Hayden touches on a huge variety of themes of the broadest interest and importance, from domestication to state formation, and religion to prostitution (the latter two sometimes simultaneously) … His book pulls together decades of personal research integrated into an overarching and compelling account of nothing less than feasting as human history.' Robert Witcher, AntiquityTable of Contents1. Before the feast: overview of the importance of feasting; 2. Food sharing and the primate foundations of feasting behavior Suzanne Villeneuve; 3. Simple hunter/gatherers; 4. Transegalitarian hunter/gatherers; 5. Domesticating plants and animals for feasts; 6. The horticultural explosion; 7. Chiefs up the ante; 8. The first states; 9. Feasting in industrial societies.

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Book SynopsisIn this pioneering study Vivienne Richmond reveals the importance of dress to the nineteenth-century English poor, who valued clothing not only for its practical utility, but also as a central element in the creation and assertion of collective and individual identities. During this period of rapid industrialisation and urbanisation formal dress codes, corporate and institutional uniforms, and the spread of urban fashions replaced the informal dress of agricultural England. This laid the foundations of modern popular dress and generated fears about the visual blurring of social boundaries as new modes of manufacturing and retailing expanded the wardrobes of the majority. However, a significant impoverished minority remained outside this process. Clothed by diminishing parish assistance, expanding paternalistic charity and the second-hand trade, they formed a 'sartorial underclass' whose material deprivation and visual distinction was a cause of physical discomfort and psychological traTrade Review'Vivienne Richmond demonstrates the power of clothing in the lives of the working and indigent poor of nineteenth-century England: children, women and men. This is an innovative exploration of clothing cultures, both those crafted by individuals and those imposed by state and institutional authorities. Subtle and insightful, Richmond brings new perspectives to this important topic.' Beverly Lemire, University of Alberta'Vivienne Richmond tells a very sad historical story, about the bodily and psychological misery of a large proportion of the population in nineteenth-century Britain; but she is not afraid to be wry, or ironic, or outraged and sometimes very funny, when appropriate.' Carolyn Steedman, University of WarwickTable of ContentsIntroduction: identifying the poor, locating their clothes; 1. Setting the standard: working-class dress; 2. 'Frankly a mystery': budgeting for clothes; 3. 'Poverty busied itself': buying clothes; 4. 'Woman's best weapon': needlework and home-made clothing; 5. 'The struggle for respectability'; 6. The sense of self; 7. 'The bowels of compassion': clothing and the Poor Law; 8. 'An urgent desire to clothe them': ladies' clothing charities; 9. 'We have nothing but our clothes': charity schools and servants; 10. 'The greatest stigma and disgrace': lunatic asylums, workhouses and prisons; Conclusion: no finery; Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisThis Companion provides an engaging and expansive overview of gustation, gastronomy, agriculture and alimentary activism in literature from the medieval period to the present day, as well as an illuminating introduction to cookbooks as literature. Bringing together sixteen original essays by leading scholars, the collection rethinks literary food from a variety of critical angles, including gender and sexuality, critical race studies, postcolonial studies, eco-criticism and children''s literature. Topics covered include mealtime decorum in Chaucer, Milton''s culinary metaphors, early American taste, Romantic gastronomy, Victorian eating, African-American women''s culinary writing, modernist food experiments, Julia Child and cold war cooking, industrialized food in children''s literature, agricultural horror and farmworker activism, queer cookbooks, hunger as protest and postcolonial legacy, and ''dude food'' in contemporary food blogs. Featuring a chronology of key publication and histTrade Review'The book is clearly written and full of engaging facts and literary connections.' M. K. Bloodsworth-Lugo, ChoiceTable of ContentsIntroduction: the literature of food J. Michelle Coghlan; 1. Medieval feasts Aaron K. Hostetter; 2. The art of early modern cookery Joe Moshenska; 3. The Romantic revolution in taste Denise Gigante; 4. The matter of early American taste Lauren Klein; 5. The culinary landscape of Victorian literature Kate Thomas; 6. Modernism and gastronomy Allison Carruth; 7. Cold War cooking J. Michelle Coghlan; 8. Farm horror in the twentieth century Michael Newbury; 9. Queering the cookbook Katharina Vester; 10. Guilty pleasures in children's literature Catherine Keyser; 11. Postcolonial tastes Parama Roy; 12. Black power in the kitchen Erica Fretwell; 13. Farmworker activism Sarah D. Wald; 14. Digesting Asian America Anne Anlin Cheng; 15. Postcolonial foodways in contemporary African literature Jonathan Bishop Highfield; 16. Blogging food, performing gender Emily Contois.

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Book SynopsisThis book provides a comprehensive theological framework for assessing the significance of eating. Drawing on diverse theological, philosophical, and anthropological insights, it offers fresh ways to evaluate food production and consumption practices as they are being worked out in today''s industrial food economy. Unlike books that focus primarily on vegetarianism and hunger-related concerns, this book broadens the scope of consideration to include the sacramental character of eating, the deep significance of hospitality, the meaning of death and sacrifice, the Eucharist as the place of inspiration and orientation, the importance of saying grace, and the possibility of eating in heaven. Throughout, eating is presented as a way of enacting fidelity between persons, between people and fellow creatures, and between people and Earth. Food and Faith demonstrates that eating is of profound economic, moral, and spiritual significance. Revised throughout, this edition includes a new introductTrade Review'Many people who 'do theology' for a living resign themselves to dusty classrooms where they fiddle with doctrines that most us can't even pronounce. But not Norman Wirzba. He is a first-rate thinker by any reckoning, but he has devoted his life to the holiness of the ordinary. It's no surprise then that he would pen a groundbreaking theology of eating. Food and Faith is an invitation to taste and see God's goodness with the power to transform your mealtimes into worship services. Savor this book slowly, and thank me when you're finished.' Jonathan Merritt, author of Learning to Speak God from Scratch and contributing writer for The Atlantic'I strongly recommended the first edition of Food and Faith. I recommend the second edition with even more enthusiasm. Not only are there careful revisions throughout, there are critical new chapters. Science is rapidly changing our understanding of ourselves as complex creatures, and the advent of the Anthropocene promises to alter everything - the planet's dynamics itself, and certainly culture and agriculture. Wirzba's cutting edge attention to these gives this new edition even more significance and more traction.' Larry Rasmussen, Reinhold Niebuhr Professor Emeritus of Social Ethics, Union Theological Seminary, New York City'Food and Faith is undoubtedly the quintessential theological work on eating, but Norman Wirzba's vision extends far beyond the food we put in our mouths. His careful thinking orients us toward living healthfully and well within the interconnected life of God's creation.' C. Christopher Smith, founding editor of The Englewood Review of Books, and co-author of Slow Church: Cultivating Community in the Patient Way of Jesus'Human eating practices have never been more disordered than they are today. Systems of modern industrial food production sustain billions of lives on this planet, but many still go to bed hungry, while others suffer from a surfeit of cheap, highly processed foods. Wirzba wisely reminds us that more technology cannot finally save us here. Instead, he invites us to taste and see that the Lord is good. Food, he tells us, is God's love made edible. Sharing meals together, we glimpse a foretaste of heaven. Our very bodies are sites of nurture for myriad organisms, and we are privileged to be capable of glimpsing our own lives and deaths as participating in nature's unfolding round of relationality. Will we respond to the call to participate in God's own Trinitarian life of hospitality, communion, and care? Will we make eating a spiritual practice? A beautiful and transformative book.' Jennifer A. Herdt, Gilbert L. Stark Professor of Christian Ethics, Yale Divinity School'Norman Wirzba is a gift and this book is one of the best you'll read this year. The thoughtfulness, the insight, the depth in these pages will revolutionize the way you think about every meal, every person you break bread with, every morsel that sustains you. Highly recommended!' Margaret Feinberg, author of Taste and See: Discovering God among Butchers, Bakers, and Fresh Food Makers'Food and Faith is a modern classic in serious Christian theological ethics, and even better in its new second edition. Wirzba offers here a magisterial, comprehensive work that can transform not only how Christians think about food but how we think about agriculture, community, death, covenant, Eucharist, heaven, scripture, and Jesus himself. A fine example of what can happen when a trained theologian committed to practicing the way of Jesus determines to address a significant but neglected issue in human life. I highly recommend this book.' David P. Gushee, Director of the Center for Theology and Public Life, Mercer University and President of the American Academy of ReligionTable of ContentsIntroduction: who is the you that eats?; 1. It's about fidelity; 2. Thinking theologically about food; 3. The 'roots' of eating: our life together in gardens; 4. Eating in exile: dysfunction in the world of food; 5. Life through death: sacrificial eating; 6. Eucharistic table manners: eating toward communion; 7. Saying Grace; 8. Eating in heaven? Consummating communion; Epilogue. Faithful eating in an anthropocene world.

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Book SynopsisFood, Ethics, and Society: An Introductory Text with Readings presents seventy-three readings that address real-world ethical issues at the forefront of the food ethics debate.Trade ReviewThis would be extremely useful for undergraduate courses in food ethics or contemporary food issues. It would work well in courses on contemporary issues in food systems. The topics are excellent. * Marion Nestle, NYU *I would absolutely recommend Food, Ethics, and Society. It's the best existing textbook on food ethics, edited by an excellent group of philosophers. It is both accessible to undergraduate students and intellectually serious. * David Plunkett, Dartmouth University *This is the only genuinely broad treatment of food ethics out there. Food, Ethics, and Society is broad in scope, thoughtfully edited, and features excellent written content. * Christopher Schlottman, NYU *Table of Contents1. THE ETHICALLY TROUBLING FOOD SYSTEM; 2. GLOBAL HUNGER; 3. FOOD JUSTICE; 4. CONSUMER ETHICS; 5. FOOD AND IDENTITY; 6. FOOD AND RELIGION (CO-WRITTEN WITH MATTHEW C. HALTEMAN); 7. INDUSTRIAL ANIMAL AGRICULTURE; 8. ALTERNATIVES TO INDUSTRIAL ANIMAL AGRICULTURE; 9. INDUSTRIAL PLANT AGRICULTURE; 10. ALTERNATIVES TO INDUSTRIAL PLANT AGRICULTURE; 11. WORKERS; 12. OVERCONSUMPTION AND OBESITY; 13. PATERNALISM AND PUBLIC HEALTH

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