| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 280 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
1. Approaches to the study of food, health and identity / Pat Caplan -- 2. Family meals : a thing of the past? / Anne Murcott -- 3. Marriages, weddings and their cakes / Simon Charsley -- 4. How British is British food? / Allison James -- 5. Fast food/spoiled identity : Iranian migrants in the British catering trade / Lynn Harbottle -- 6. 'Bacon sandwiches got the better of me' : meat-eating and vegetarianism in South-East London / Anna Willetts -- 7. Urban pleasure? On the meaning of eating out in a northern city / Lydia Martens and Alan Warde -- 8. 'We never eat like this at home' : food on holiday / Janice Williams -- 9. Too hard to swallow? The palatability of healthy eating advice / Anne Keane -- 10. Being told what to eat : conversations in a Diabetes Day Centre / Simon Cohn -- 11. Health, eating and heart attacks : Glaswegian Punjabi women's thinking about everyday food / Hannah Bradby -- 12. Scaremonger or scapegoat? The role of the media in the emergence of food as a social issue / Jacquie Reilly and David Miller -- 13. Declining meat : past, present ... and future imperfect? / Nick Fiddes |
| Summary |
By addressing the issue of food and eating in Britain today, this book considers the way in which our food habits are changing, and shows how social and personal identities and perceptions of health and risk influence choices |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Food habits -- Great Britain
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Diet -- Great Britain
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Food habits.
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Diet in disease.
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Feeding Behavior
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Diet
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Customs & Traditions.
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Diet in disease
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Diet
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Food habits
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| SUBJECT |
United Kingdom |
| Subject |
Great Britain
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Caplan, Patricia, editor
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| LC no. |
96051909 |
| ISBN |
0203276043 |
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9780203276044 |
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0203443799 |
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9780203443798 |
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9786610050758 |
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6610050759 |
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9781134730001 |
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1134730004 |
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9781134729951 |
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1134729952 |
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9781134729999 |
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1134729995 |
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1280050756 |
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9781280050756 |
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