Food Between the Country and the City

Nuno Domingos is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal, and a Research Associate of the Food Studies Centre, SOAS, University of London, UK.José Manuel Sobral is Senior Researcher and Director of the PhD Program in Social Anthropology at the Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal. Harry G. West is Professor of Anthropology, and Chair of the Food Studies Centre, at SOAS, University of London, UK.

One of my take-to-the-desert-island favorite books ... The editors of this current volume extend Williams' insights into tropes of the country and the city to the problem of food in the contemporary era ... [and] treat us to several fascinating examples of the tenacity of these tropes in the messy and dynamic material realities of contemporary food production, circulation, and consumption.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsContributorsIntroduction: Approaching Food and Foodways Between the Country and the City Through the Work of Raymond WilliamsNuno Domingos and José Manuel Sobral, both Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal, and Harry G. West, SOAS, University of London, UKSection I: Of the Country and Its FoodConflicting Wine Narratives: ‘Pleasing Prospects’ and the Struggles in the Construction of AlentejoNuno Domingos, Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa, PortugalEmbodying Country-City Relations: the Chola Cuencana in Highland EcuadorEmma-Jayne Abbots, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UKBringing the City to the Country: Supermarket Expansion, Food Practices and Aesthetics in Rural South AfricaElizabeth Hull, SOAS, University of London, UKBringing It All Back Home: Reconnecting the Country and the City through Heritage Food Tourism in the French AuvergneHarry G. West, SOAS, University of London, UKSection II: Of the City and Its FoodComing to Terms with Urban Agriculture: a Self-CritiqueLaura B. Delind, Michigan State University, USAUrban Hunger and the Home Village: How Lilongwe's Migrant Poor Stay Food SecureJohan Pottier, SOAS, University of London, UKPerceptions of the Country through the Migration of City-grown Crops: Guinean Food in Bissau and in LisbonMaria Abranches, University of Sussex, UKSection III: Of the Nation and Its FoodThe Country, the Nation and the Region in Representations of Portuguese Food and CuisineJosé Manuel Sobral, Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa, PortugalHazz al-Quhuf: An Urban Satire on Peasant Life and Food from Seventeenth-century EgyptSami Zubaida, Birkbeck and SOAS, University of London, UKReflecting Authenticity: 'Grandmother's Yogurt' between Bulgaria and JapanMaria Yotova, University of Shiga Prefecture, JapanUnpacking the Mediterranean Diet: Agriculture, Food, and HealthMonica Truninger and Dulce Freire, both Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa, PortugalNotesReferencesIndex