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Title Who decides? : competing narratives in constructing tastes, consumption and choice / edited by Nina B. Namaste, Marta Nadales Ruiz.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2018]
©2018

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 290 pages) : illustrations.
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Series At the interface/Probing the boundaries, 1570-7113 ; volume 97
At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 97.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Intro; Who Decides?: Competing Narratives in Constructing Tastes, Consumption and Choice; Copyright; Table of Contents; Introduction: Constructing Tastes, Shaping Behaviours; Part I Taste, Identity and Authenticity; Part I Introduction: Taste, Identity and Authenticity; Re-Orientalization: Confronting Asian America via the Steamed Pork Bun; Italian Food: The Pride of a People without Borders; Brunch: An Argument for American Cuisine; The Most American Daily Bread: The Rise and Fall of Wonder Bread; An Encomium of Bacalhau: The Portuguese Emblem of a Gastronomic Symphony.
The Cup of the Empire: Understanding British Identity through Tea in Victorian LiteratureBreaking Bread Online: Social Media, Photography and the Virtual Experience of Food; 'A Little Bit of Rice, a Little Bit of Fish Curry': Food Practices of Malayali Nurses in Brisbane, Australia; 'Mamakization': Measuring Social Cohesion in Malaysian Iconic Eateries; Part II Food Discourses: Perceptions, Control and Othering; Part II Introduction: Food Discourses: Perceptions, Control and Othering.
Understanding New Food Technologies and Trust in Food: Framing Analysis of Food Additives and Food Radiation (1960-1995)'To Master Your Body as Much as Your Mind': Control of Eating Behaviours for Brazilian and Spanish Young Women; Talking Food, Talking Race: Food Storytelling in a Californian Ethnoburb.
Summary Who Decides? Competing Narratives in Constructing Tastes, Consumption and Choice explores how tastes are shaped, formed, delineated and acted upon by normalising socio-cultural processes, and, in some instances, how those very processes are actively resisted and renegotiated.
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Subject Food -- Social aspects.
Food -- Social aspects.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Namaste, Nina B., editor.
Ruiz, Marta Nadales, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Who decides? : competing narratives in constructing tastes, consumption and choice. Leiden ; Brill : Boston, MA : Rodopi, 2018 ix, 290 pages At the interface/probing the boundaries ; Volume 97 9789004350793 (DLC) 2018934261
ISBN 9789004365247 (electronic book)
9004365249 (electronic book)
9789004350793
9004350799