ISBN:
9780415137676
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (233 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Consuming Geographies : We Are Where We Eat
DDC:
306.4
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Food occupies a seemingly mundane position in all our lives, yet the ways we think about shopping, cooking and eating are actually intensely reflexive. The daily pick and mix of our eating habits is one way we experience spatial scale. From the relationship of our food intake to our body-shape, to the impact of our tastes upon global food-production regimes, we all read food consumption as a practice which impacts on our sense of place.Drawing on anthropological, sociological and cultural readings of food consumption, as well as empirical material on shopping, cooking, food technology and the
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; CONSUMING GEOGRAPHIES; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Figures and Plates; Boxes; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 Body; 3 Home; 4 Community; 5 City; 6 Region; 7 Nation; 8 Global; Bibliography; Index;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
