Fast food/slow food : the cultural economy of the global food system /
Fast food/slow food : the cultural economy of the global food system /
Cultural economy of the global food system
edited by Richard Wilk.
- Lanham, MD : Altamira Press, c2006.
- vi, 268 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Society for Economic Anthropology monographs ; v. 24 .
A collection of papers presented at a conference.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Ch. 1. Food at moderate speeds / Sidney Mintz -- Ch. 2. From wild weeds to artisanal cheese / Richard Wilk -- Ch. 3. Building lives with food : production, circulation, and consumption of food in Yap / James A. Egan, Michael L. Burton, Karen L. Nero -- Ch. 4. Food for the Malian middle class : an invisible Cuisine / Dolores Koenig -- Ch. 5. Taco Bell, Maseca, and slow food : a postmodern apocalypse for Mexico's peasant cuisine? / Jeffrey M. Pilcher -- Ch. 6. From hunger foods to heritage foods : challenges to food localization in Lao PDR / Penny Van Esterik -- Ch. 7. Tasting the worlds of yesterday and today : culinary tourism and nostalgia foods in post-Soviet Russia / Melissa L. Caldwell -- Ch. 8. Kaiten-zushi and Konbini : Japanese food culture in the age of mechanical reproduction / Theodore C. Bestor -- Ch. 9. Rice ball rivalries : Japanese convenience stores and the appetite of late capitalism / Gavin Hamilton Whitelaw -- Ch. 10. Global tastes, local contexts : an ethnographic account of fast food expansion in San Fernando City, the Philippines / Ty Matejowsky -- Ch. 11. From the bottom up : the global expansion of Chinese vegetable trade for New York City markets / Valerie Imbruce -- Ch. 12. The role of ideology in New Mexico's CSA (community supported agriculture) organizations : conflicting visions between growers and members / Lois Stanford -- Ch. 13. Artisanal cheese and economies of sentiment in New England / Heather Paxson -- Ch. 14. Fast and slow food in the fast lane : automobility and the Australian diet / Cathy Banwell, Jane Dixon, Sarah Hinde, Heather McIntyre -- Ch. 15. Just Java : roasting fair trade coffee / Sarah Lyon.
9780759109148 (cloth : alk. paper) 0759109141 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780759109155 (pbk. : alk. paper) 075910915X (pbk. : alk. paper)
2006010813
Food industry and trade--Social aspects--Congresses.
Convenience foods--Social aspects--Congresses.
Cooking--Social aspects--Congresses.
Food habits--Social aspects--Congresses.
International economic integration--Social aspects--Congresses.
HD9000.5 / .F29 2006
338.4/7664
A collection of papers presented at a conference.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Ch. 1. Food at moderate speeds / Sidney Mintz -- Ch. 2. From wild weeds to artisanal cheese / Richard Wilk -- Ch. 3. Building lives with food : production, circulation, and consumption of food in Yap / James A. Egan, Michael L. Burton, Karen L. Nero -- Ch. 4. Food for the Malian middle class : an invisible Cuisine / Dolores Koenig -- Ch. 5. Taco Bell, Maseca, and slow food : a postmodern apocalypse for Mexico's peasant cuisine? / Jeffrey M. Pilcher -- Ch. 6. From hunger foods to heritage foods : challenges to food localization in Lao PDR / Penny Van Esterik -- Ch. 7. Tasting the worlds of yesterday and today : culinary tourism and nostalgia foods in post-Soviet Russia / Melissa L. Caldwell -- Ch. 8. Kaiten-zushi and Konbini : Japanese food culture in the age of mechanical reproduction / Theodore C. Bestor -- Ch. 9. Rice ball rivalries : Japanese convenience stores and the appetite of late capitalism / Gavin Hamilton Whitelaw -- Ch. 10. Global tastes, local contexts : an ethnographic account of fast food expansion in San Fernando City, the Philippines / Ty Matejowsky -- Ch. 11. From the bottom up : the global expansion of Chinese vegetable trade for New York City markets / Valerie Imbruce -- Ch. 12. The role of ideology in New Mexico's CSA (community supported agriculture) organizations : conflicting visions between growers and members / Lois Stanford -- Ch. 13. Artisanal cheese and economies of sentiment in New England / Heather Paxson -- Ch. 14. Fast and slow food in the fast lane : automobility and the Australian diet / Cathy Banwell, Jane Dixon, Sarah Hinde, Heather McIntyre -- Ch. 15. Just Java : roasting fair trade coffee / Sarah Lyon.
9780759109148 (cloth : alk. paper) 0759109141 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780759109155 (pbk. : alk. paper) 075910915X (pbk. : alk. paper)
2006010813
Food industry and trade--Social aspects--Congresses.
Convenience foods--Social aspects--Congresses.
Cooking--Social aspects--Congresses.
Food habits--Social aspects--Congresses.
International economic integration--Social aspects--Congresses.
HD9000.5 / .F29 2006
338.4/7664