Food for Thought

Food for Thought - Bog - Hardback

This volume offers new insights into food and culture. Food habits, preferences, and taboos are partially regulated by ecological and material factors - in other words, all food systems are structured and given particular functioning mechanisms by specific societies and cultures, either according to totemic, sacrificial, hygienic-rationalist, aesthetic, or other symbolic logics. This provides much ¿food for thought¿. The famous expression has never been so appropriate: not only do cultures develop..