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This book is a qualitative, interpretive, phenomenological, and interdisciplinary, examination of food and food practices and their meanings in the modern world. Each chapter thematically focuses upon a particular food practice and on some key details of the examined practice, or on the practices social and cultural impact.

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Offers an overview of the relationship between food and globalization in the modern world. This book provides a perspective on both global history and food studies. It is intended for students and scholars of history, food studies, sociology, anthropology and globalization.

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Food has a special significance in the expanding field of global history. This work provides an historical overview of the relationship between food and globalization in the modern world. It offers a fresh perspective on both global history and food studies.

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This collection of original essays explores food and identity in the Caribbean, as contemporary political and economic changes impact upon culinary identities. Through rich ethnographies, the volume reveals how connections between food and identity persist and evolve against the odds.

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This collection of original essays explores food and identity in the Caribbean, as contemporary political and economic changes impact upon culinary identities. Through rich ethnographies, the volume reveals how connections between food and identity persist and evolve against the odds.

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This fascinating study focuses on the material culture of food, demonstrating how food offers a means of shaping the self not simply through consumption but in everyday forms of production, through fine dining, shopping and blogging to TV and cookbooks.

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This fascinating study focuses on the material culture of food, demonstrating how food offers a means of shaping the self not simply through consumption but in everyday forms of production, through fine dining, shopping and blogging to TV and cookbooks.

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Understanding how food fads and diets can develop a fervent following that rise to the level of a cult is a new area of study and often overlooked. Here, Kima Cargill and other experts shed fresh light on the subject, revealing how and why such cults may develop among certain communities.

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Belgian waffles, chocolate, and beer are renowned, but Food Culture in Belgium opens up the entire food culture spectrum and reveals Belgian food habits today and yesterday.

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This entry in the Food Culture around the World series helps those in the United States understand the new immigrants from Central America who have brought their food cultures with them.

Food Culture in Central America illustrates the unique foodways of the region in depthand in Englishfor the first time.

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The cuisine of China is widely considered to be one of the best because it meets the requirements of geographic variety, inclusion of all types of foods, and a long-established and well-developed culinary tradition. Food Culture in China is loaded with information on the cuisine's prominent role in Chinese culture.

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Offers an overview of Germany's revived and invigorated food culture. This book provides an understanding of Germans and their food - the history, ingredients, cooking, special occasions, lifestyle eating habits, and diet and health.

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Americans are familiarizing themselves with Japanese food, thanks especially sushi's wild popularity and ready availability. This book offers a contextual framework for the Japanese food culture and relates Japan's history and geography to food.

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The food cultures of Scandinavian countries are similar in important ways but also have many different traditions because of variations in geography and climate and unique social, cultural and political history.

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Many dishes, cooking methods, and food habits have survived with little modification since time immemorial.

Students and other readers will learn much about the South American foodways in daily life today, with special attention paid to historical perspective and any rural and urban differences.

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The final chapter on diet and health looks at some of the ideologies underlying the relation between food and disease, particularly the humoral system, and then considers the nutritional challenges related to recent changes in local food systems, including food safety.