Food media : celebrity chefs and the politics of everyday interference / Signe Rouseau.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rousseau, Signe, 1975- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Celebrity chefs.

Cooks.

Food habits--Social aspects.

Food habits.

Obesity in mass media.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxlv, 195 p. ) ill.

Edition:

English edition.

Distribution:

London, England : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020

Place of Publication:

London, England : Berg, 2012.

Summary:

Exploring the rise of the celebrity chef and covering key figures such as Jamie Oliver and Rachael Ray as well as popular concepts like foodies, food porn and fetishism, Food Media highlights how the intersections between celebrity culture and food media influence everyday food choices.

Contents:

Food media : a fantasy industry

The rise and rise of food television

How not to think about what to eat.

Introduction : Do you remember when chefs just cooked?

Part I. Food media: a fantasy industry : The new study of food : Chef Mario Batali, on the subject of cooking ; Enter the foodie ; Television: the magic screen ; To your health ; Let me entertain you

Foodie books and fantasies : Communication: 'the object thus made common' ; A life less ordinary (David, Fisher, Liebling) ; Drooling over history ; A life more ordinary (food literature) ; Ignorance as commodity

Part II: The rise and rise of food television : The celebrity (professional) chef: Jamie Oliver : The naked chef ; @jamie_oliver ; Jamie's kitchen ; The Jamie effect, or The practice of everyday interference

The celebrity (amateur) chef: Rachael Ray : Multi-millionaire girl-next-door ; The Yum-O! revolution ; Food porn ; Disordered eating

Fetishism and the imagination: Heston Blumenthal and Nigella Lawson : Everyday mythology ; In search of perfection ; Fetishism: 'the definitive mistake of the pre-enlightened mind' ; The domestic goddess

Part III: How not to think about what to eat : Nutritionism, bad science and spectacles of disordered eating : Morbid fascinations ; You are what you eat ; Supersize vs. superskinny ; Super skinny me

Obesity: whose responsibility is it anyway? : Fat stories ; The obesity police ; Fat taxes ; Evidence: what of? ; The public good.

Notes:

Formerly CIP.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

ISBN:

9780857850836

0857850830

OCLC:

841413214