Essays on Eating and Culture
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Lawrence C. Rubin is a professor of counselor education at St. Thomas University in Miami, Florida, and a practicing psychologist. He lives in Fort Lauderdale.
Acknowledgments v
Foreword by John Shelton Lawrence 1
Introduction 7
PART I. FROM PRE-MODERNITY TO THE HYPERMODERN AGE
1. Man, Machine and Refined Dining in Victorian America 15
Hillary Murtha
2. Shopping for What Never Was: The Rhetoric of Food, Social Style and Nostalgia 31
Carlnita Greene
3. All You Can Eat: Sociological Reflections on Food in the Hypermodern Era 48
Simon Gottschalk
PART II. EAT LOCALLY, THINK GLOBALLY
4. Raising the Bar: The Complicated Consumption of Chocolate 67
Ellen E. Moore
5. The Espresso Revolution: Introducing Coffee-Bar Franchising to Modern China 83
Jackie Cook and Robert Lee
6. Mass Agrarianism: Wal-Mart and Organic Foods 97
Dawn Gilpin
PART III. ENTERTAINING FOOD AND EATING
7. "Everybody Eats": The Food Network and Symbolic Capital 113
Megan Mullen
8. Semiotic Sound Bites: Toward an Alimentary Analysis of Popular Song 125
Christopher Joseph Westgate
9. Hunger and Satiety in Latin American Literature 139
Santiago Daydi-Tolson
PART IV. WE ARE WHERE WE EAT
10. Reengineering "Authenticity": Tourism Encounters with Cuisine in Rural Great Britain 153
Craig Wight
11. Passing Time: The Ironies of Food in Prison Culture 166
Jim Thomas
12. Selfish Consumers: Delmonico’s Restaurant and Learning to Satisfy Personal Desire 180
Heather Lee
13. Is it Really Better to Travel Than to Arrive? Airline Food as a Reflection of Consumer Anxiety 199
Guillaume de Syon
PART V. COME JOIN US
14. Deconstructing the Myth of the Dysfunctional Black Family in the Film Soul Food 211
Tina M. Harris
15. Cultural Representation of Taste in Ang Lee’s Eat, Drink, Man, Woman 225
Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley
PART VI. EAT, DRINK AND BE PUBLIC
16. Snacking as Ritual: Eating Behavior in Public Places Phillip Vannini 237
17. Beyond Bread and Cir...