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• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• 1 Food as … identity
• Introduction
• How food makes us
• Food makes us what we are
• Thinness and fatness
• Food in the life cycle
• Food, identity and self-identity
• Food and health identity
• Food and social identity
• Eating properly as identity
• Closing remarks about food and identity
• Bibliography
• 2 Food as … politics
• Introduction
• Micro-politics of food
• Food, families and children
• Cooking as politics
• Food politics and national security
• Food politics in the community
• Farmers’ markets
• Food, place and politics
• Closing remarks about food as politics
• Bibliography
• 3 Food as … industry
• Introduction
• Food producers and consumers
• Big Food
• The dimensions of Big Food
• The big players in Big Food
• Big Food and health
• Food as industry … what does it tell us?
• Closing remarks on food as industry
• Bibliography
• 4 Food as … regulation
• Introduction
• Regulation and the need for safe food
• Regulation and culture
• The rise in self-regulation
• Regulating affluence
• Restraint in a modern context
• Re-establishing food and regulation
• Better food regulation – but how far does the public want government to go?
• Closing remarks on food and regulation
• Bibliography
• 5 Food as … the environment
• Introduction
• Humans, food and the environment
• Population growth, food and the environment
• The shortage of oil and the food supply
• Industrialised environments and food
• The food supply and climate change
• Food and the ocean environment
• Public reaction to food and the environment
• Closing remarks about food as environment
• Bibliography
• 6 Food as … justice
• Introduction
• Food justice: a short history
• Rights-based approaches to food justice
• Food justice and human disaster
• Food justice and technology
• Food justice and trade
• Food justice and food quality
• Re-establishing food justice
• Food justice and food sovereignty
• Closing remarks on food as justice
• Bibliography
• 7 Food as … gastronomy
• Introduction
• What is gastronomy?
• The meal and food events as gastronomy
• Intrinsic properties of food
• Extrinsic aspects of the eating event
• Psychosocial and cultural gastronomy
• Pleasure of food
• Gastronomy through life, health and illness
• Closing remarks about food as gastronomy
• Note
• Bibliography
• 8 Food as … humanness
• Introduction
• Dietetics
• Food, body and soul
• Food and the humours
• What is good to eat?
• How do we understand the food we choose to eat?
• Closing remarks about food as humanness
• Bibliography
• Further reading
• Index