| Description |
viii, 288 pages ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Hagley perspectives on business and culture |
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Hagley perspectives on business and culture.
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| Contents |
Food matters : perspectives on an emerging field / Warren Belasco -- Food and eating : some persisting questions / Sidney W. Mintz -- Rituals of pleasure in the land of treasures : wine consumption and the making of French identity in the late nineteenth century / Kolleen M. Guy -- "Eddie Shack was no Tim Horton" : donuts and the folklore of mass culture in Canada / Steve Penfold -- Food and nationalism : the origins of "Belizean food" / Richard R. Wilk -- Inventing baby food : Gerber and the discourse of infancy in the United States / Amy Bentley -- How the French learned to eat canned food, 1809-1930s / Martin Bruegel -- Searching for gold in guacamole : California growers market the avocado, 1910-1994 / Jeffrey Charles -- Untangling alliances : social tensions surrounding independent grocery stores and the rise of mass retailing / Tracey Deutsch -- As American as Budweiser and pickles? : nation-building in American food industries / Donna R. Gabaccia -- Comida sin par : consumption of Mexican food in Los Angeles : "foodscapes" in a transnational consumer society / Sylvia Ferrero -- Industrial tortillas and folkloric Pepsi : the nutritional consequences of hybrid cuisines in Mexico / Jeffrey M. Pilcher -- Berlin in the Belle époque : a fast-food history / Keith Allen -- Food and the politics of scarcity in urban Soviet Russia, 1917-1941 / Mauricio Borrero |
| Summary |
Featuring the work of some of the most established scholars in the food studies field, Food Nations looks at the connections between food, culture, and commerce. The essays in this collection pick at what we eat for all its ideological and political implications, such as Foodscapes in Los Angeles, the politics of the California avocado, or the cultural subtext of baby food |
| Notes |
Papers originally presented at a conference in November 1999, "Food and drink in consumer societies," sponsored by the Hagley Museum and Library |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Food industry and trade -- Social aspects.
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Food habits -- Cross-cultural studies -- Congresses.
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Food habits -- Congresses.
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Food industry and trade -- Social aspects -- Congresses.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Belasco, Warren James.
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Scranton, Philip.
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| LC no. |
2001019497 |
| ISBN |
0415930766 |
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0415930774 paperback |
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