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Title Qualities of food / edited by Mark Harvey, Andrew McMeekin, Alan Warde.

Publication Info. Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2004.

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Description 1 online resource (214 pages).
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Physical Medium polychrome
Series New dynamics of innovation and competition
New dynamics of innovation and competition.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction / Mark Harvey, Andrew McMeekin and Alan Warde -- 1. Discovering quality or performing taste? A sociology of the amateur / Genevieve Teil and Antoine Hennion -- 2. Standards of taste and varieties of goodness : the (un)predictability of modern consumption / Jukka Gronow -- 3. Quality in economics : a cognitive perspective / Gilles Allaire -- 4. Social definitions of halal quality : the case of Maghrebi Muslims in France / Florence Bergeaud-Blackler -- 5. Food agencies as an institutional response to policy failure by the UK and the EU / David Barling -- 6. Theorising food quality : some key issues in understanding its competitive production and regulation / Terry Marsden.
Summary How do people make judgments about what food is worth eating and what tastes good?; how do such judgments come to be shared by groups of people?; what social and organisational processes result in foods being certified as of decent or proper quality?; how.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access
Language English.
Subject Food -- Analysis.
Food -- Analysis.
Food industry and trade.
Food industry and trade.
Indexed Term Multi-User.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Added Author Harvey, Mark, 1943-
McMeekin, Andrew.
Warde, Alan.
Other Form: Print version: Qualities of food. Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2004 (DLC) 2005275600
ISBN 9781847791054 (electronic book)
1847791050 (electronic book)
9780719068546
0719068541
1280719605
9781280719608