Handbook of Food Research

Anne Murcott is Professorial Research Associate, Food Studies Centre, SOAS University of London and Honorary Professor, University of Nottingham, UK.Warren Belasco is Professor Emeritus of American Studies, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA. Peter Jackson is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Sheffield, UK.

The Handbook of Food Research covers the whole spectrum of research related to food production, distribution and consumption

• Foreword by Sidney W. Mintz (John Hopkins University, USA)A Burgeoning Field: Introduction to The Handbook of Food Research - Anne Murcott (SOAS, University of Nottingham and London South Bank University, UK)Part One: Historical EssentialsEditorial IntroductionThe History of Globalization and the Food Supply - Leigh Bush, Adrianne Bryant, and Richard Wilk (Indiana University, USA)Re-thinking the Economic and Social History of Agriculture and Food, Through the Lens of Food Choice - Richard Le Heron (University of Auckland, NZ) Feeding Growing Cities in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Problems, Innovations and Reputations - Peter Scholliers and Patricia Van Den Eeckhout (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)The Historical Development of Industrial and Domestic Food Technologies - Mónica Truninger (Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal) Social History of the Science of Food Analysis and the Control of Adulteration - Peter J. Atkins (University of Durham, UK) Representations of Food Production and Consumption: Cookbooks as Historical Sources - Kyri W. Claflin (Boston University, USA)Part Two: Frameworks of Provision: Production and Distribution Editorial IntroductionContemporary Food Systems - Terry Marsden (Cardiff University, UK)Economics, Food Demand and Nutrition - Richard Tiffin and Matthew Salois (University of Reading, UK)Food Chains - Bill Pritchard (University of Sydney, Australia) Food and the Audit Society - Hugh Campbell (University of Otago, NZ)Environmental Issues in Agriculture: Farming Systems and Ecosystem Services - Michael Winter (University of Exeter, UK)Appellations and indications of origin, terroir, and the social construction and contestation of place-named foods - Harry G. West (SOAS, UK)A Critical Turn in Hospitality and Tourism Research - Richard Mitchell and David Scott (School of Hospitality, Otago Polytechnic, NZ and Southern Cross University, Australia)Part Three: Buying and EatingEditorial IntroductionFood Marketing - Marianne Elisabeth Lien (University of Oslo, Norway) and Eivind Jacobsen (National Institute for Consumer Research (SIFO), Oslo, Norway)Food Retailing - Allan G. Hallsworth (University of Portsmouth, UK)The Twenty-First Century 'Food Consumer': The Emergence of Consumer Science - Helene Brembeck (Centre for Consumer Science, CFK, University of Gothenburg, Sweden)Appetite and Satiety - A Psychobiological Approach - John Blundell, Michelle Dalton, Graham Finlayson (University of Leeds, UK)Sociology of Food Consumption - Lotte Holm (Copenhagen University, Denmark)Meals: Eating at Home and 'Eating Out' - Alice Julier (Chatham University, USA)Drinks: Water, 'Soft' and Alcoholic - Tom Brennan (United States Naval Academy, USA)Food and Identity - Krishnendu Ray (New York University, USA)Part Four: Contemporary Issues, Problems and PolicyEditorial IntroductionHunger and Famine Worldwide - Ellen Messer (Boston University, USA)The Politics of Food and Nutrition Policies - David F. Smith (University of Aberdeen, UK) Risk and Trust in the Food Supply - Unni Kjærnes (The National Institute for Consumer Research, Oslo, Norway)Food (In)security in the Global "North" and "South" - Jane L. Midgley (University of Newcastle, UK) Food and the Media: Production, Representation and Consumption - Roger Dickinson (University of Leicester, UK)Eating Disorders and Obesity: Symptoms of a Socially Sanctioned Pathway in the Modern World - Jane Ogden (University of Surrey, UK)Food Waste - Catherine Alexander (Goldsmiths' College London, UK) Nicky Gregson (University of Sheffield, UK) and Zsuzsa Gille (University of Illinois at Urbana-champaign, USA)ReferencesName IndexSubject Index