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How have eating habits changed in recent decades? What does it mean to eat well?
This fascinating book examines continuity and change in food consumption and eating patterns since the 1950s. The culinary landscape of Britain is explored through discussion of commodification, globalisation and diversification enabling an understanding of both developing trends and enduring habits.
The author’s research undertaken over 40 years offers fresh insights into such practices as everyday meals, shopping, cooking and dining out and how these are shaped by demographic, social and cultural processes. The book provides a comprehensive and engaging analysis of eating in Britain today and of the many controversies about how this has changed.
“An authoritative and engaging account, written by Britain’s pre-eminent food sociologist, emphasising the pleasures of eating as well as current anxieties about food. Strongly evidenced, the book includes personal reflections and telling examples from the author’s own experience.” Peter Jackson, University of Sheffield
"Important reading for those interested in food practices and culinary culture, and readers with a broader interest in social change.” Lotte Holm, University of Copenhagen
1. Changing Eating Habits
2. Meals: Occasions and Arrangements
3. Acquisition and Diversity
4. Tasting: Embracing Foreign Flavours
5. Meal Preparation
6. Eating with Style
7. Anxious Pleasures: Eating and Happiness
8. An Unfinished Revolution?