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This innovative and global best-seller helped establish food studies courses throughout the social sciences and humanities when it was first published in 1997. The fourth edition of Food and Culture contains favorite articles from earlier editions and several new pieces on food politics, globalism, agriculture, and race and gender identity.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Preface to the Fourth Edition (p. xi)
• Acknowledgments (p. xii)
• Foreword (p. xiii)
• Introduction: The Continuing Salience of Food and Culture (p. 1)
• Meaning and Practice
• 1 Toward a Psychosocioiogy of Contemporary Food Consumption (p. 13)
• 2 The Culinary Triangle (p. 21)
• 3 Deciphering a Meal (p. 29)
• 4 Japanese Mothers and Obentos: The Lunch-Box as Ideological State Apparatus (p. 48)
• 5 Eating Cultures: Incorporation, Identity and Indian Food (p. 67)
• 6 Cooking Skills, the Senses, and Memory: The Fate of Practical Knowledge (p. 88)
• 7 Race, Place and Taste: Making Identities Through Sensory Experience in Ecuador (p. 110)
• 8 The Raw and the Rotten: Punk Cuisine (p. 127)
• Representation and Identity
• 9 Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste (p. 141)
• 10 The Nourishing Arts (p. 151)
• 11 Towards Queering Food Studies: Foodways, Heteronormativity, and Hungry Women in Chicana Lesbian Writing (p. 163)
• 12 "A WAY OUTA NO WAY": Eating Problems among African-American, Latina, and White Women (p. 177)
• 13 'Mexicanas' Food Voice and Differential Consciousness in the San Luis Valley of Colorado (p. 191)
• 14 "I Haven't Eaten If I Don't Have My Soup and Fufu": Cultural Preservation Through Food and Foodways Among Ghanaian Migrants in the United States (p. 205)
• 15 The Signifying Dish: Autobiography and History in Two Black Women's Cookbooks (p. 221)
• 16 Rural Masculinity in Transition: Gender Images in Tractor Advertisements (p. 236)
• 17 Authenticity in America; Class Distinctions in Potato Chip Advertising (p. 247)
• Global and Local Production
• 18 Industrial Food: Towards the Development of a World Cuisine (p. 263)
• 19 Remaking "Traditions": How We Eat, What We Eat and the Changing Political Economy of Food (p. 283)
• 20 Breastfeeding as Foodwork (p. 300)
• 21 On the Move for Food: Three Women Behind the Tomato's Journey (p. 312)
• 22 If It Ain't Alberta, It Ain't Beef: Local Food, Regional Identity, (Inter)National Politics (p. 323)
• 23 From the Bottom Up: The Global Expansion of Chinese Vegetable Trade for New York City Markets (p. 336)
• 24 Jolly Dogs and McSpaghetti: Anthropological Reflections on Global/Local Fast-Food Competition in the Philippines (p. 351)
• 25 Too Hot to Handle: Food, Empire, and Race in Thai Los Angeles (p. 363)
• 26 "Old Stock" Tamales and Migrant Tacos: Taste, Authenticity, and the Naturalization of Mexican Food (p. 385)
• Food Politics
• 27 Time, Sugar, and Sweetness (p. 401)
• 28 Re-purposing the Master's Tools: The Open Source Seed Initiative and the Struggle for Seed Sovereignty (p. 414)
• 29 Preface to the Tenth Anniversary Edition of Food Politics (p. 439)
• 30 The Disappearance of Hunger in America (p. 443)
• 31 Rooting Out the Causes of Disease: Why Diabetes Is So Common Among Desert Dwellers (p. 450)
• 32 The Political Economy of Obesity: The Fat Pay All (p. 462)
• 33 Expanding Access and Alternatives: Building Farmers' Markets in Low-Income Communities (p. 480)
• 34 Slow Food and the Politics of "Virtuous Globalization" (p. 493)
• 35 Learning Democracy Through Food Justice Movements (p. 510)
• Contributor Bios (p. 525)
• Credit Lines (p. 532)
• Index (p. 535)