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Food for Thought: Essays on Eating and Culture Kindle Edition

by Lawrence C. Rubin (Author, Editor) Format: Kindle Edition
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Historically, few topics have attracted as much scholarly, professional, or popular attention as food and eating—as one might expect, considering the fundamental role of food in basic human survival. Almost daily, a new food documentary, cooking show, diet program, food guru, or eating movement arises to challenge yesterday’s dietary truths and the ways we think about dining.
This work brings together voices from a wide range of disciplines, providing a fascinating feast of scholarly perspectives on food and eating practices, contemporary and historic, local and global. Nineteen essays cover a vast array of food-related topics, including the ever-increasing problems of agricultural globalization, the contemporary mass-marketing of a formerly grassroots movement for organic food production, the Food Network’s successful mediation of social class, the widely popular phenomenon of professional competitive eating and current trends in “culinary tourism” and fast food advertising.
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    315 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    McFarland
  4. Publication date
    October 27, 2009
  5. Reading age
    18 years and up
  6. File size
    3565 KB
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This collection of essays addresses obsessions with food: humans’ consuming need for sensual pleasure and their nagging fears of their appetites’ potential for abuse. Editor and clinical psychologist Rubin goes so far as to diagnose in America a national eating disorder. Americans’ approach toward consumption runs the gamut from purchasing mass-marketed organic produce at the local Wal-Mart to cheering on uncontrolled gluttons at competitive-eating contests. Eating has become an oft-treated subject for the arts, as revealed in a close analysis of Ang Lee’s film Eat Drink Man Woman. Television’s wildly popular Food Network puts on view a trove of images about contemporary eating mores and the evolution of cooking into sheer entertainment. In one of the anthology’s most unexpected and novel entries, Jim Thomas talks about the role of food in America’s ever-growing prisons. And Guillaume de Syon ruminates on what airline food says about today’s attitudes toward travel. --Mark Knoblauch

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“uesful...recommended”―Choice; “a veritable smorgasbord of information...offers a significant amount of information about the multifaceted and ever-changing discourse of foodways...excellent, well researched”―Journal of Popular Culture; “addresses obsessions with food...unexpected and novel entries”―Booklist.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B002XDQHTK
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ McFarland; 1st edition (October 27, 2009)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 27, 2009
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 3565 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
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  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 315 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

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Lawrence C. Rubin

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Lawrence Rubin, Ph.D., LMHC, RPTS is a Professor of Counselor Education at St. Thomas University in Miami, Florida, where he directs the Mental Health Counseling Program and is a Psychologist, Counselor and Play Therapist in private practice. His research interests and publications lie at the intersection of Psychology and Popular Culture. His books include Psychotropic Drugs and Popular Culture: Medicine, Mental Health and the Media (which won the 2006 Ray and Pat Browne award for best anthology), Food for Thought: Essays on Eating and Culture, Popular Culture in Counseling, Psychotherapy and Play-based Intervention, Using Superheroes in Counseling and Play Therapy and Messages: Self-help Through Popular Culture. He blogs for Psychology Today on popular culture and psychology

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