| Description |
1 online resource (272 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Defining Culinary Capital; 2 Fixing Dinner/Fixing the Self: The Contradictions of New Trends in Food Procurement; 3 Television Cooking Shows: Gender, Class, and the Illusory Promise of Transformation; 4 Democratizing Taste?: Culinary Capital in the Digital Age; 5 Culinary Resistance: State Fairs, Competitive Eating, and "Junk" Foodies; Conclusion; Notes; Works Cited; Index. |
| Summary |
TV cookery shows hosted by celebrity chefs. Meal prep kitchens. Online grocers and restaurant review sites. Competitive eating contests, carnivals and fairs, and junk food websites and blogs. What do all of them have in common? According to authors Kathleen LeBesco and Peter Naccarato, they each serve as productive sites for understanding the role of culinary capital in shaping individual and group identities in contemporary culture. Beyond providing sustenance, food and food practices play an important social role, offering status to individuals who conform to their culture's culinary norms a. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Food -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Food habits -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Food consumption -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Cultural studies. |
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Media studies. |
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TV & society. |
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Sociology & anthropology. |
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Food & society. |
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COOKING -- General. |
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Food |
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Food consumption |
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Food habits |
| Genre/Form |
Cross-cultural studies
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| Added Author |
LeBesco, Kathleen, 1970- https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjMHMDBFJfJK8BTxFXX3DC
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Naccarato, Peter. Culinary Capital. London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013 9780857854155 |
| ISBN |
9780857854155 (electronic bk.) |
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0857854151 (electronic bk.) |
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