Food, Health, and Identity

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Patricia Caplan
Psychology Press, 1997 - Health & Fitness - 280 pages

By addressing the issue of food and eating in Britain today this collection considers the ways in which food habits are changing and shows how social and personal identities and perceptions of health risk influence people's food choices.

The articles explore, among other issues:
- the family meal
- wedding cakes
- nostalgia and the invention of tradition
- the rise of vegetarianism
- the recent BSE crisis
- the `creolization' of British food eating out
- creation of individual identity through lifestyle.

The contributors include Hanna Bradby, Simon Charsley, Allison James, Anne Keane, Lydia Martens and Alan Warde.

 

Contents

Family meals a thing of the past?
32
Marriages weddings and their cakes
50
How British is British food?
71
Iranian migrants in the British
87
meateating
111
Urban pleasure? On the meaning of eating out in
131
food on holiday
151
Too hard to swallow? The palatability of healthy eating
172
conversations in a Diabetes
193
Glaswegian Punjabi
213
Scaremonger or scapegoat? The role of the media in
234
past present and future imperfect?
252
Index
267
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