Conversations with food / edited by Dorothy Chansky and Sarah W. Tracy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chansky, Dorothy, editor.

Tracy, Sarah W., editor.

Series:

Vernon series in sociology.

Series in sociology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food--Social aspects.

Food.

Nutritional anthropology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 233 pages).

Place of Publication:

Wilmington, Delaware : Vernon Press, [2021]

Summary:

"Conversations With Food offers readers an array of essays revealing the power of food (and its absence) to transform relationships between the human and non-human realms; to define national, colonial, and postcolonial cultures; to help instantiate race, gender, and class relations; and to serve as the basis for policymaking. Food functions in these contexts as items in religious or secular law, as objects with which to bargain or over which to fight, as literary trope, and as a way to improve or harm health--individual or collective. The anthology ranges from Ancient Greece to the posthuman fairy underworld; from the codifying of French culinary heritage to the strategic marketing of 100-calorie snacks; from the European famine after the Second World War to the lush and exotic cuisines of culinary tourism today. Conversations With Food will engage anyone interested in discovering the disciplinary breadth and depth of food studies. The anthology is ideally suited for introductory and advanced courses in food studies, as it includes essays in a range of humanities and social science disciplines, and each author draws cross-disciplinary linkages between their own work and other essays in the volume. This thematic and conceptual intercalation, when read with the editors' introduction, makes the collection an exceptionally strong representation of the field of food studies." -- Amazon.

Contents:

Starving for Science and Conscience: The Minnesota Experiment, Ancel Keys, and Religious Pacifism, 1944-46 / Sarah W. Tracy

They Tried to Make Me Go to Rehab But I Said No, No, No: Single-Serve Packs and the Social Contract / Abby Wilkerson

A Ballpark United by Food: Hot Dogs and Bridging the Gap Between the Skyboxes and the Cheap Seats at the Houston Astrodome / Seth S. Tannenbaum

When Diplomacy Sours: The Failed Feast and Intergroup Relations in Ancient Greek Literature / Jessica Romney

Harvey Wiley and the Transformation of American Food Manufacturing / Jonathan Rees

The Inventory of Tradition: French Culinary Heritage in the Global Age / Benjamin Poole

Food and The Skriker: Consumption and Corruption in Caryl Churchill's Posthuman Fairy Underworld / Patrick Midgley

US Permaculture and the Legacy of Colonizing Ideologies / Audrey Lundahl

Of Eating and Being (Eaten): Identity, Power, and Food in Eich's Radio Drama Der Tiger Jussuf

Belinda Kleinhans

Food and "Trumpism": How a Farm Crisis, Food Stamps, and Fat-free Diets Foreshadowed a Trump Victory / Adele Hite

On Performative Food Acts and the Human-Microbe Relationship / Maya Hey

Local but Not Traditional: Farm-to-Table Dining at a Belizean Resort / Lauren Miller Griffith

Food Tourism: With Anthony Bourdain What You See is Never What You'll Get / Roger Porter.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-64889-093-8