Food Words is a series of provocative essays on some of the most important keywords in the emergent field of food studies, focusing on current controversies and ongoing 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, Food Words 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 researchbased and fully referenced but accessible to the general reader.With a foreword by eminent food scholar Warren Belasco, Professor of American Studies at the University of MarylandBaltmore County, and written by an interdisciplinary team associated with the CONANX research project (Consumer culture in an age of anxiety), Food Words will be essential reading for food scholars across the arts, humanities and social sciences.

Binding: Hardcover;308 pages; Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC; Classification: N/A; Weight: 812.18 g; Dimensions: N/A

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