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Author Conroy, Thomas M., 1961-

Title Food and everyday life / edited by Thomas M. Conroy.

Publication Info. Lanham : Lexington Books, a wholly owned subsidiary of Rowman & Littlefield, [2014]

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  394.12 F686F    Check Shelf
Description vii, 282 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Part 1. Food meanings and representations : Gagging on the other: television's gross food challenge / Stacey Jameson -- From Bento to blog: the digital culture of an everyday Japanese meal / Klara Seddon -- Museums, consumption, and the everyday: encountering the colonial "other" through food / Irina D. Mihalache -- From snack to cuisine: the spatialization of Taiwanese foods / Hui-tun Chaung -- "Drinking local": sustainable brewing, alternative food networks, and the politics of valuation / J. Nichol Beckham -- Part 2. Food practice case studies : The tension between gourmet and everyday: communicating value while encouraging consumption / Amy Singer -- Cultivating localization through commodity de-fetishism: contours of authenticity and the pursuit of transparency in the local organic agrarian food market / Zack Schrank -- Embodied connections: a new wave of urban agriculture / Bethany Turner and Joanna Hendriks -- The dilemma of dinner: the practice of home cooking in everyday life / Roblyn Rawlins and David Livert -- Part 3. Food consumption practices and the body : The phenomonology of food consumption: a developmental view / Matthew Day -- Healthy eating on a budget: negotiating tensions between two discourses / Marianne LeGreco, Stephanie Greene, and Derek Shaw -- Fat eats: a phenomenology of decadence, food, and health / Talia Welsh.
Subject Food habits.
Food preferences.
Food industry and trade.
Food habits. (OCoLC)fst00930807
Food industry and trade. (OCoLC)fst00930843
Food preferences. (OCoLC)fst00930981
Matvanor.
ISBN 9780739173107 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0739173103 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780739186145 (paperback)
0739186140 (paperback)
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