{"product_id":"food-words-9780857851963","title":"Food Words","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFood Words \u003c\/i\u003eis a series of provocative essays on some of the most important keywords in the emergent field of food studies, focusing on current controversies and on-going debates.Words like ''choice'' and ''convenience'' are often  used as explanatory terms in understanding consumer behavior but are clearly ideological in the way they reflect particular positions and  serve specific interests, while words like ''taste'' and ''value'' are no  less complex and contested.Inspired by Raymond Williams,\u003ci\u003e Food Words\u003c\/i\u003e traces the multiple meanings of each of our keywords, tracking nuances in different (academic, commercial and policy) contexts.  Mapping the  dynamic meanings of each term, the book moves forward from critical  assessment to active intervention -- an attitude that is reflected in  the lively, sometimes combative, style of the essays.  Each essay is  research-based and fully referenced but accessible to the general reader.With a foreword by eminent food scholar Warren B\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume is a welcome contribution to the growing public conversation about food in our world today. By locating key terms in these discussions within shifting and contested landscapes of meaning, it reveals the complexities and contradictions glossed by simpler assertions, and provides a much-needed foundation for a more robust, critical understanding of the forces shaping contemporary food and foodways. * Harry G. West, Professor of Anthropology and Chair of the SOAS Food Studies Centre, University of London, UK *\u003cbr\u003eThis book is an inspirational and generative intervention in the food literature that will prompt deep and reflective discussion amongst and beyond food researchers and scholars. \u003ci\u003eFood Words\u003c\/i\u003e offers 60 essays on a diversity of topics chosen to give interdisciplinary insights into food at work in the world.  The intellectual journey into culinary culture in each essay, and the book as a whole, transforms our understandings of the contours of the fast moving field of food. * Richard Le Heron, University of Auckland, New Zealand *\u003cbr\u003eHere is a remarkable way to organize information: part dictionary, part reading list and part pure essay in the spirit of Montaigne. The topics are both critical and expository and the broad range will help guide even the most seasoned food scholar in a way that reference works rarely do. Most importantly, this book will work wonderfully in the classroom. * Ken Albala, University of the Pacific, USA *\u003cbr\u003eTimely, highly readable and engaging, \u003ci\u003eFood Words\u003c\/i\u003e throws down an intellectual gauntlet for food studies scholars to pick up and chew over. This volume is a must read for all manner of ‘foodies’ and will no doubt become a touchstone in the excitingly re-vitalised study of food culture for many years to come. * Mike Goodman, Senior Lecturer, Department of Geography, King's College London, UK *\u003cbr\u003eThe essays are, to use a culinary term, bite-sized and thus easily digestible... You are getting a lot more than a typical dictionary or encyclopaedia description, it is more a collection of thoughts that direct you, upon request, to other topics, to other reference sources and to other trains of thought. * Yum.fi *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFood Words\u003c\/i\u003e will, I believe, prove to be invaluable to food studies students as a concise guide to the principal ideas and issues currently occupying the minds of the leaders in their chosen subject . . . [It] will, I suggest, also provide fascinating insights into the new world of food studies and, indeed, the wider world of sociological thinking on food and food security issues . . . For me it was a fascinating and most enjoyable read—a book that I kept dipping into with pleasure, in the sure knowledge that whatever entry I started reading would, by turns, stimulate and provoke me, and would most certainly set my mind spinning off at an unexpected tangent of further creative thought . . . ‘Food studies’ is clearly a rapidly evolving field … so I look forward to the second edition of this informative and entertaining book with keen anticipation. -- D. S. Ingram * Food Security *\u003cbr\u003eThere is much to enjoy about this book . . . It could become an important reference text for undergraduate and postgraduate students -- Colin Sage, University College Cork * Social \u0026amp; Cultural Geography *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword by Warren Belasco Introduction: Writing Food Words, by Peter Jackson List of Contributors  \u003cb\u003eThe Essays \u003c\/b\u003e  Advertising \/ Aesthetics \/ Anxiety \/ Appetite \/ Artisan \/ Authenticity Body \/ Brands Celebrity Chefs \/ Choice \/ Class \/ Commodities \/ Consumption \/ Convenience \/ Cooking Drinking Eating \/ Ecology \/ Emotion \/ Exotic Farming \/ Foodscapes \/ Fresh Gender \/ Gourmet \/ Governance Hunger Innovation Kitchens Labelling \/ Local-global Markets \/ Materialities \/ Media \/ Memory \/ Moral economy Nutrition Packaging \/ Pleasure \/ Practices \/ Provenance Quality Race\/ethnicity \/ Responsibility \/ Risk Safety \/ Science \/ Security\/insecurity \/ Sex \/ Shopping \/ Skill \/ Space\/place \/ Sustainability Taste \/ Technologies \/ Time \/ Tradition \/ Trust Value\/values Waste \/ Work  Guide to Further Reading References Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51742339891543,"sku":"9780857851963","price":25.64,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780857851963.jpg?v=1758384379","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/food-words-9780857851963","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}