From the author of 'Stopped' and 'The Food Our Children Eat', this book takes us on a perceptive journey through Britain's contemporary food landscape, and also traces the roots of our contemporary food troubles in engrained ideas about class, modernity, and progress.
What is it about the British and food? We just don't get it, do we? Britain is notorious worldwide for its bad food and increasingly corpulent population but it's a habit we just can't seem to kick. Welcome to the country where recipe and diet books feature constantly in top 10 …
What is it about the British and food? We just don't get it, do we? Britain is notorious worldwide for its bad food and increasingly corpulent population but it's a habit we just can't seem to kick. Welcome to the country where recipe and diet books feature constantly in top 10 …
Abstract: Seventeen essays on the sociological significance of food and eating in Britain are presented. The focus is to examine the way the British relate culinary practices, menus and manners, and beliefs and concepts about food values to the social aspects of eating. Many of …
Using food as a case study of consumption and the expression of taste, Warde outlines various theories of change in the 20th century and suggests that consumption is best viewed as a process of continual selection from a range of accessible items.
