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Fast food/slow food : the cultural economy of the global food system / edited by Richard Wilk.

Contributor(s): Series: Society for Economic Anthropology monographs ; v. 24Publication details: Lanham, MD : Altamira Press, c2006.Description: vi, 268 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780759109148 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0759109141 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780759109155 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 075910915X (pbk. : alk. paper)
Other title:
  • Cultural economy of the global food system
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.4/7664 22
LOC classification:
  • HD9000.5 .F29 2006
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks HD9000.5 .F29 2006 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039000987122

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.

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