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Food in World History

Food in World History

Now in its third edition Food in World History explores culinary cultures and food politics throughout the world from ancient times to the present day with expanded discussions of industrialization indigeneity colonialism gender environment and food and power. It examines the long history of globalization of foods as well as the political social and environmental implications of our changing relationship with food showing how hunger and taste have been driving forces in human history. Including numerous case studies from diverse societies and periods such as Maya and Inca cuisines and peasant agriculture in the early modern era Food in World History explores such questions as: What social factors have historically influenced culinary globalization? How did early modern plantations establish patterns for modern industrial food production? How will the climate crisis affect food production and culinary cultures? Did Italian and Chinese migrant cooks sacrifice authenticity to gain social acceptance in the Americas? Have genetically modified foods fulfilled the promises made by proponents? With the inclusion of more global examples this comprehensive survey is an ideal resource for all students who study food history or food studies.

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When Cats Reigned Like Kings On the Trail of the Sacred Cats

When Cats Reigned Like Kings On the Trail of the Sacred Cats

In her fascinating exploration of feline history Georgie Anne Geyer explores the connections between the royal and sacred felines of ancient civilizations and the beloved domestic cats of today. Chasing an irresistible mystery across the globe Geyer conducts exhaustive research into the little-known puzzle of how cats came to occupy their unique position in the lives of humans. Treated with the tenacity resourcefulness and narrative instinct of a seasoned foreign correspondent the investigation yields unexpected answers and poses tantalizing new questions. It was Geyer's curiosity about her own cats that inspired her to study the history of human-feline relations and especially the exalted status of cats among the ancients as royal or sacred beings. In Egypt Geyer learned of the cat-goddess Bastet and of the cat's role in the transmigration of souls. In Myanmar she saw Leonardo DiCaprio Ricky Martin and the other incongruously named cats of the Nga Phe Kyaung monastery trained by the monks to jump through hoops. She even met a family who dutifully guards the heritage of the Japanese Bobtail cultivating the line in of all places rural Virginia. Richly illustrated with photographs of Geyer's journeys and historical cat images When Cats Reigned Like Kings describes forty-one recognized modern cat breeds plus other popular cats. Every cat lover can thus trace his or her cat to these breeds and their many relatives. The result is a remarkable book bound to delight and amaze cat fanciers and adventure seekers. | When Cats Reigned Like Kings On the Trail of the Sacred Cats

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Food Futures in Education and Society

Food Futures in Education and Society

This book brings together a unique collection of chapters to facilitate a broad discussion on food education that will stimulate readers to think about key policies recent research curriculum positions and how to engage with key stakeholders about the future of food. Food education has gained much attention because the challenges that influence food availability and eating in schools also extend beyond the school gate. Accordingly this book establishes evidence-based arguments that recognise the many facets of food education and reveal how learning through a future's lens and joined-up thinking is critical for shaping intergenerational fairness concerning food futures in education and society. This book is distinctive through its multidisciplinary collection of chapters on food education with a particular focus on the Global North with case studies from England Australia the Republic of Ireland the United States of America Canada and Germany. With a focus on three key themes and a rigorous food futures framework the book is structured into three sections: (i) food education pedagogy and curriculum (ii) knowledge and skill diversity associated with food and health learning and (iii) food education inclusivity culture and agency. Overall this volume extends and challenges current research and theory in the area of food education and food pedagogy and offers insight and tangible benefits for the future development of food education policies and curricula. This book will be of great interest to students scholars policymakers and education leaders working on food education and pedagogy food policy health and diet and the sociology of food.

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East Asia and Food (In)Security

East Asia and Food (In)Security

This book presents a study of perceptions of food insecurity in East Asia and explores how individual countries are developing strategies to deal with the situation. It also looks at how the perception of food insecurity has increasingly influenced the nature of international interactions not just within East Asia but also in the region’s relations with major external actors. Many of the challenges facing East Asia are generic food security issues that face people and governments across the world – for example the implications of climate change and demographic changes on food supplies. This book places the East Asian context in the wider discussion of food (in)security in global politics. However it also identifies potential regional ‘differences’ – for example the significance of rice for the region and the unavoidable impact of China as a major regional player. What the Chinese state and Chinese companies decide to do in response to concerns about food insecurity have an impact not just on the rest of the region but on the rest of the world. Taking too much of a Sinocentric focus however ignores other actors in East Asia or merely relegates discussion to how they respond to Chinese policies or external strategies. This book considers the region as a whole both when it comes to thinking about food security challenges and responses within the region itself and also in the outward projection of regional food insecurity on the rest of the world. This book was published as a special issue of The Pacific Review. | East Asia and Food (In)Security

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Food Policy in the United Kingdom An Introduction

Food Policy in the United Kingdom An Introduction

This book provides an introduction to food policy in the United Kingdom examining policy development implementation influences and current issues. The book begins by providing a wide-ranging introduction to food policy in the UK situating it within wider global debates and establishing key drivers such as issues related to global citizenship trade and finance. The use of food control as a policy lever is also discussed and contrasted with alternative approaches based on behaviour change. The book presents an overview of the history of UK food policy from which there is much to be learned before moving onto current challenges posed by political instability both at home and abroad global pandemics and cost of living crises. Foremost is the need to manage public health including both malnutrition and obesity while promoting sustainable and healthy diets as well as the broader issues around addressing food security and food poverty. The book also examines public sector food initiatives such as school food and early childhood provisions and food regulation. As a part of food regulation chapters examine food scares and food fraud from chalk in flour to horsegate. The role of media marketing and advertising is also considered within a policy perspective. Taking a wider lens the book also discusses the impact of global food trade and the financialisation of food on food policy in the UK and vice versa. The book is supported by instructor eResources on the Routledge website designed to support student learning as well as provide regular updates on UK food policy developments. The eResources include student activities group exercises and links to further reading and additional resources. This book serves as a key introduction to UK food and agricultural policy for students scholars policymakers and professionals as well as those interested in food systems public health and social policy more widely. | Food Policy in the United Kingdom An Introduction

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Food Policy in the United States An Introduction

Food Policy in the United States An Introduction

This new edition offers a timely update to the leading textbook dedicated to all aspects of U. S. food policy. The update accounts for experience with policy changes in the 2014 Farm Bill and prospects for the next Farm Bill the publication of the 2015–2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans the removal of Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS) status for trans fats the collapse of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) treaty stalled child nutrition reauthorization legislation reforms in food-labeling policy the consequences of the 2016 presidential election and many other developments. The second edition offers greater attention both to food justice issues and to economic methods including extensive economics appendices in a new online Companion Website. As with the first edition real-world controversies and debates motivate the book’s attention to economic principles policy analysis nutrition science and contemporary data sources. The book assumes that the reader's concern is not just the economic interests of farmers and food producers but also includes nutrition sustainable agriculture food justice the environment and food security. The goal is to make U. S. food policy more comprehensible to those inside and outside the agri-food sector whose interests and aspirations have been ignored. The chapters cover U. S. agriculture food production and the environment international agricultural trade food and beverage manufacturing food retail and restaurants food safety dietary guidance food labeling advertising and federal food assistance programs for the poor. The author is an agricultural economist with many years of experience in the nonprofit advocacy sector the U. S. Department of Agriculture and as a professor at Tufts University. The author's blog on U. S. food policy provides a forum for discussion and debate of the issues set out in the book. | Food Policy in the United States An Introduction

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Food

Food

In Food John Coveney examines ‘food as … ’ identity politics industry regulation the environment justice and gastronomy. He explores how food helps us understand what it means to be human. The centrality of food in life and the importance of food as life is undeniable. As a source of biological substrates personal pleasure and political power food is and has been an enduring requirement of human biological social and cultural existence. In recent years interest in food has increased across the academic public and popular spheres fuelled by popular media’s constant play on the role of food and body size and food and cooking as a mass spectacle for TV audiences. Through food we construct our social identities our families and communities. However Coveney also highlights the tensions between the industrialisation of food the environment and the iniquitous distribution of food. He also considers how the food industries on which most of us must rely have also had direct effects on our bodies through diet and the development of illness and diseases. This accessible primer is for students and general readers alike indeed for anyone with an interest in food. It questions the idea that food is merely something inert on the plate. Instead it shows how influential symbolic powerful and transformative food has come to be.

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Schools and Food Education in the 21st Century

Schools and Food Education in the 21st Century

Schools and Food Education in the 21st Century examines how schools enact food policy and through doing so craft diverse foodscapes that create very different food experiences in schools. The school food policy discourse is made up of an amalgamation of discourses on obesity prevention nutrition education welfarism and foodieness. Whilst schools endeavor to enact policy in a variety of ways this book shows how foodieness is taken up and can only be taken up differently in different schools. The book’s unique contribution is to identify the discourse of foodieness and to show how this discourse whilst seemingly universal is actually situated in middle-class ideas and is therefore more easily taken up by certain schools. The book argues that the classed nature of foodieness leads to certain food knowledges becoming marginalized or lost and this then positions some schools in tension with their local communities resulting in widely variant food experiences for children. Earl demonstrates how foodieness is taken up in schools by first exploring how the foodscape at school is shaped by policy and media sources. The book then examines how foodieness is taken up by schools with different SES profiles by showing how food moves through the school day. Asking critical questions on class and poverty that are often overlooked this book will be of interest to researchers academics and students working on food issues related to teaching food policy and schools in the fields of education sociology and food studies. It should also be of interest to policymakers parents and teachers.

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Food Justice in American Cities Stories of Health and Resilience

Food Justice in American Cities Stories of Health and Resilience

This book documents food insecurity in urban communities across the United States and asks whether emerging urban food and agriculture initiatives can address the food security needs of American city dwellers. While America has sufficient food to feed its entire population 38 million people are food insecure with urban communities and communities of color having long borne the brunt of food inequalities. This book traces the evolving story of food by describing the people behind food system statistics focusing on cities and suburban communities across America. In doing so it raises questions not only about food security but about a food economy that can foster justice and sustainability and combat hunger and waste. By linking human faces to the data the book reveals the many connections between food insecurity and unsustainable practices. The book concludes by discussing some of the pathways toward a more sustainable and just food system by linking the food system to the larger economy and the many sectors that are connected to food. Because of these multifaceted connections food can be a unique catalyst for creating pathways toward a more just and sustainable economy that is more aligned with nature. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of food justice food security urban food and agriculture urban sustainability and sustainable food systems more broadly. | Food Justice in American Cities Stories of Health and Resilience

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Food Heritage and Nationalism in Europe

Food Heritage and Nationalism in Europe

Food Heritage and Nationalism in Europe contends that food is a fundamental element of heritage and a particularly important one in times of crisis. Arguing that food taste cuisine and gastronomy are crucial markers of identity that are inherently connected to constructions of place tradition and the past the book demonstrates how they play a role in intangible as well as tangible heritage. Featuring contributions from experts working across Europe and beyond and adopting a strong historical and transnational perspective the book examines the various ways in which food can be understood and used as heritage. Including explorations of imperial spaces migrations and diasporas; the role of commercialisation processes and institutional practices within political and cultural domains this volume considers all aspects of this complex issue. Arguing that the various European cuisines are the result of exchanges hybridities and complex historical processes Porciani and the chapter authors offer up a new way of deconstructing banal nationalism and of moving away from the idea of static identities. Suggesting a new and different approach to the idea of so-called national cuisines Food Heritage and Nationalism in Europe will be a compelling read for academic audiences in museum and heritage studies cultural and food studies anthropology and history. Chapters 1 2 4 6 and 12 of this book are available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www. routledge. com. They have been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license

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Food in Wartime Britain Testimonies from the Kitchen Front (1939–1945)

Food in Wartime Britain Testimonies from the Kitchen Front (1939–1945)

Based on deep analysis of Mass Observation wartime diaries Food in Wartime Britain explores the food experience of the British middle classes in their own words throughout the course of the Second World War. It reveals that while the food practices of the population were modified by rationing and food scarcity social class and personal circumstances were key dimensions of the wartime food experience that demand to be taken into account in the historical narrative of the Home Front. | Food in Wartime Britain Testimonies from the Kitchen Front (1939–1945)

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Britain's Food Supplies

Britain's Food Supplies

Originally published in 1952. In this fascinating book that examines the statistics the term food supplies is interpreted in a wide sense and it deals among other matters with such subjects as supplies from home agriculture and from overseas; food consumption; controls rationing and price regulations and Government purchasing of food. Included are chapters on world food supplies international organizations concerned with food and agriculture and development schemes in the Commonwealth and colonies. Food supply from the eighteenth century onwards is outlined and the dependence on imported food is discussed. | Britain's Food Supplies

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Food and Foodways in African Narratives Community Culture and Heritage

Food and Foodways in African Narratives Community Culture and Heritage

Food is a defining feature in every culture. Despite its very basic purpose of sustaining life it directly impacts the community culture and heritage in every region around the globe in countless seen and unseen ways including the literature and narratives of each region. Across the African continent food and foodways which refer to the ways that humans consume produce and experience food were influened by slavery and forced labor colonization foreign aid and the anxieties prompted by these encounters all of which can be traced through the ways food is seen in narratives by African and colonial storytellers. The African continent is home to thousands of cultures but nearly every one has experienced alteration of its foodways because of slavery transcontinental trade and colonization. Food and Foodways in African Narratives: Community Culture and Heritage takes a careful look at these alterations as seen through African narratives throughout various cultures and spanning centuries. | Food and Foodways in African Narratives Community Culture and Heritage

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Farmers' Cooperatives and Sustainable Food Systems in Europe

Farmers' Cooperatives and Sustainable Food Systems in Europe

Farmers' cooperatives are very prevalent in the European Union where they account for approximately half of agricultural trade and thus are key to articulating rural realities and in shaping the sustainability credentials of European food and farming. This book analyses to what extent farmers' cooperatives are working to benefit their members are showing concern for their communities and are promoting cooperative economies. It offers a multilevel set of theoretical disciplinary methodological empirical and social perspectives using the UK and Spain as contrasting examples and analyses whether agricultural cooperatives contribute to achieving sustainable food systems. The book presents empirical data from diverse and rich case studies from large international cooperatives to small multi-stakeholder initiatives. This provides an alternative viewpoint to that of economics which tends to dominate the study of agricultural cooperatives. The author presents a new theoretical framework that provides a novel lens to study farmers’ cooperatives as organisations deeply embedded in power dynamics of the food system and agricultural policy that shape and constraint their potential to adopt cooperative and sustainable practices. The book is a major addition to the study of agricultural cooperatives and their impact in the development of fairer and more sustainable food systems and it is one of the first detailed accounts of multi-stakeholder food and farming cooperatives in Europe. It is a valuable resource for all scholars working on cooperatives as well as for students studying agricultural and food policy environmental justice and rural sociology. | Farmers' Cooperatives and Sustainable Food Systems in Europe

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Food Safety Standards in International Trade The Case of the EU and the COMESA

Food Safety Standards in International Trade The Case of the EU and the COMESA

Food safety has become a major concern for consumers in the developed world and Europe in particular. This has been highlighted by the recent spate of food scares ranging from the BSE (mad cow) crisis to Chinese melamine contamination of baby formula. To ensure food safety throughout Europe stringent food safety standards have been put in place ‘from farm to fork’. At the same time poor African countries in the COMESA rely on their food exports to the European market to achieve their development goals yet have difficulty meeting the EU food safety standards. This book examines the impact of EU food safety standards on food imports from COMESA countries. It also critically examines both EU and COMESA food safety standards in light of the WTO SPS Agreement and the jurisprudence of the WTO panels and Appellate Body. The book makes ground-breaking proposals on how the standards divide between the EU and the COMESA can be bridged and discusses the impact of EU food safety standards on food imports from poor African countries. | Food Safety Standards in International Trade The Case of the EU and the COMESA

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Localizing Global Food Short Food Supply Chains as Responses to Agri-Food System Challenges

Localizing Global Food Short Food Supply Chains as Responses to Agri-Food System Challenges

Short food supply chains (SFSCs) rely primarily on local production and processing practices for the provision of food and are in principle more sustainable in social economic and environmental terms than supply chains where production and consumption are widely separated. This book reviews and assesses recent initiatives on this topic from an interdisciplinary perspective. In theoretical terms it draws on and advances two key concepts namely place (particularly embeddedness in local economic networks and communities) and governance (particularly in addressing sustainability concerns in an inclusive and socially just manner). Empirically the book examines a diverse set of SFSCs such as small-scale entrepreneurship farmers’ markets community supported agriculture and grassroots and solidarity networks. The main examples discussed are from Europe and North America but the issues are applicable in a global context. The book is of interest to advanced students researchers and professionals in food studies sociology geography planning politics and environmental studies. | Localizing Global Food Short Food Supply Chains as Responses to Agri-Food System Challenges

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Food History A Feast of the Senses in Europe 1750 to the Present

Food History A Feast of the Senses in Europe 1750 to the Present

This pioneering book elevates the senses to a central role in the study of food history because the traditional focus upon food types quantities and nutritional values is incomplete without some recognition of smell touch sight hearing and taste. Eating is a sensual experience. Every day and at every meal the senses of smell touch sight hearing and taste are engaged in the acts of preparation and consumption. And yet these bodily acts are ephemeral; their imprint upon the source material of history is vestigial. Hitherto historians have shown little interest in the senses beyond taste and this book fills that research gap. Four dimensions are treated: • Words Symbols and Uses: Describing the Senses – an investigation of how specific vocabularies for food are developed. • Industrializing the Senses – an analysis of the fundamental change in the sensory qualities of foods under the pressure of industrialization and economic forces outside the control of the household and the artisan producer. • Nationhood and the Senses – an exploration of how the combination of the senses and food play into how nations saw themselves and how food was a signature of how political ideologies played out in practical everyday terms. • Food Senses and Globalization – an examination of links between food the senses and the idea of international significance. Putting all of the senses on the agenda of food history for the first time this is the ideal volume for scholars of food history food studies and food culture as well as social and cultural historians. Putting all of the senses on the agenda of food history for the first time this is the ideal volume for scholars of food history food studies and food culture as well as social and cultural historians. | Food History A Feast of the Senses in Europe 1750 to the Present

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Digital Food Cultures

Digital Food Cultures

This book explores the interrelations between food technology and knowledge-sharing practices in producing digital food cultures. Digital Food Cultures adopts an innovative approach to examine representations and practices related to food across a variety of digital media: blogs and vlogs (video blogs) Facebook Instagram YouTube technology developers’ promotional media online discussion forums and self-tracking apps and devices. The book emphasises the diversity of food cultures available on the internet and other digital media from those celebrating unrestrained indulgence in food to those advocating very specialised diets requiring intense commitment and focus. While most of the digital media and devices discussed in the book are available and used by people across the world the authors offer valuable insights into how these global technologies are incorporated into everyday lives in very specific geographical contexts. This book offers a novel contribution to the rapidly emerging area of digital food studies and provides a framework for understanding contemporary practices related to food production and consumption internationally.

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Food Consumption in the City Practices and patterns in urban Asia and the Pacific

Food Consumption in the City Practices and patterns in urban Asia and the Pacific

Food consumption patterns and practices are rapidly changing in Asia and the Pacific and nowhere are these changes more striking than in urban areas. This book brings together scholars from anthropology sociology environmental studies tourism architecture and development studies to provide a comprehensive examination of food consumption trends in the cities of Asia and the Pacific including household food consumption eating out and food waste. The chapters cover different scales of analysis from household research to national data and combine different methodologies and approaches from quantifiable data that show how much people consume to qualitative findings that reveal how and why consumption takes place in urban settings. Detailed case studies are included from China India Japan Malaysia Philippines South Korea and Vietnam as well as Hawai'i and Australia. The book makes a timely contribution to current debates on the challenges and opportunities for socially just and environmentally sound food consumption in urbanizing Asia and the Pacific. Chapter 3 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www. taylorfrancis. com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 3. 0 license. | Food Consumption in the City Practices and patterns in urban Asia and the Pacific

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Food Hawkers Selling in the Streets from Antiquity to the Present

Food Hawkers Selling in the Streets from Antiquity to the Present

Street vendors are ubiquitous across the world and throughout history. They are part of almost any distribution chain and play an important role in the marketing of consumer goods particularly to poorer customers. Focusing on the food trades this multi-disciplinary volume explores the dynamics of street selling and its impact on society. Through an investigation of food hawking the volume both showcases the latest results from a subject that has seen the emergence of a significant body of innovative and adventurous scholarship and advances the understanding of street vending and its impact on society by stimulating interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary discussions. Covering a time span of approximately two millennia from antiquity to the present the book includes chapters on Europe and Asia and covers a diverse range of themes such as the identity of food sellers (in terms of gender ethnicity and social status); the role of the street seller in the distribution of food; the marketing of food; food traders and the establishment; the representation of food hawkers; and street traders and economic development. By taking a dynamic approach the collection has enabled its contributors to cross disciplinary boundaries and engage in discussions which extend beyond the limits of their own academic fields and thus provide a fresh appreciation of this ancient phenomenon. | Food Hawkers Selling in the Streets from Antiquity to the Present

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A History of Food in Literature From the Fourteenth Century to the Present

A History of Food in Literature From the Fourteenth Century to the Present

When novels plays and poems refer to food they are often doing much more than we might think. Recent critical thinking suggests that depictions of food in literary works can help to explain the complex relationship between the body subjectivity and social structures. A History of Food in Literature provides a clear and comprehensive overview of significant episodes of food and its consumption in major canonical literary works from the medieval period to the twenty-first century. This volume contextualises these works with reference to pertinent historical and cultural materials such as cookery books diaries and guides to good health in order to engage with the critical debate on food and literature and how ideas of food have developed over the centuries. Organised chronologically and examining certain key writers from every period including Chaucer Shakespeare Austen and Dickens this book's enlightening critical analysis makes it relevant for anyone interested in the study of food and literature. | A History of Food in Literature From the Fourteenth Century to the Present

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Food Pedagogies

Food Pedagogies

In recent years everyone from politicians to celebrity chefs has been proselytizing about how we should grow buy prepare present cook taste eat and dispose of food. In light of this contributors to this book argue that food has become the target of intensified pedagogical activity across a range of domains including schools supermarkets families advertising and TV media. Illustrated with a range of empirical studies this edited and interdisciplinary volume - the first book on food pedagogies - develops innovative and theoretical perspectives to problematize the practices of teaching and learning about food. While many different pedagogues - policy makers churches activists health educators schools tourist agencies chefs - think we do not know enough about food and what to do with it the aims effects and politics of these pedagogies has been much less studied. Drawing on a range of international studies diverse contexts genres and different methods this book provides new sites of investigation and lines of inquiry. As a result of its broad ranging critical evaluation of ’food as classroom’ and ’food as teacher’ it provides theoretical resources for opening up the concept of pedagogy and assessing the moralities and politics of teaching and learning about food in the classroom and beyond.

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Food Ecology and Culture Readings in the Anthropology of Dietary Practices

Food Ecology and Culture Readings in the Anthropology of Dietary Practices

First published in 1980. The following papers represent a selection of studies which provide such an insight into human food behavior during development. It is hoped that readers will be encouraged to participate in this new quest for knowledge. The time has surely come to document carefully the food practices of different societies. The authors’ hope there will be similar and parallel attempts to evaluate the health and disease status so that the relationships between diet and disease may be clarified. | Food Ecology and Culture Readings in the Anthropology of Dietary Practices

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