Food, health and identity / editor, Pat Caplan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Caplan, Patricia.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food habits--Great Britain.

Food habits.

Diet--Great Britain.

Diet.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 280 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

By addressing the issue of food and eating in Britain today, this book considers the way in which our food habits are changing, and shows how social and personal identities and perceptions of health and risk influence choices.

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of contributors; Preface and acknowledgements; 1 Approaches to the study of food, health and identity; 2 Family meals - a thing of the past?; 3 Marriages, weddings and their cakes; 4 How British is British food?; 5 Fast food/spoiled identity: Iranian migrants in the British catering trade; 6 'Bacon sandwiches got the better of me': meat-eating and vegetarianism in South-East London; 7 Urban pleasure? On the meaning of eating out in a northern city; 8 'We never eat like this at home': food on holiday

9 Too hard to swallow? The palatability of healthy eating advice 10 Being told what to eat: conversations in a Diabetes Day Centre; 11 Health, eating and heart attacks: Glaswegian Punjabi women's thinking about everyday food; 12 Scaremonger or scapegoat? The role of the media in the emergence of food as a social issue; 13 Declining meat: past, present ... and future imperfect?; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-134-72999-5

1-134-73000-4

1-280-05075-6

0-203-44379-9

0-203-27604-3

9780203443798

OCLC:

560364928