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Author Warde, Alan, author.

Title The social significance of dining out : a study of continuity and change / Alan Warde, Jessicsa Paddock and Jennifer Whillans.

Publication Info. Manchester [UK] : Manchester University Press, 2020.
©2020

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Description 1 online resource
Physical Medium polychrome
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Contents Front matter -- Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Notes on authors -- Acknowledgements -- Part I: Introduction -- Dining out -- Method and context -- Part II: Familiarisation -- Patterns of dining out -- The meaning of eating out -- Part III: Informalisation -- Food at home -- Domestic hospitality -- Restaurant performances -- Organising eating -- Part IV: Diversification -- Regard for variety -- Aesthetics, enthusiasm and culinary omnivorousness -- Landscape of variety -- Part V: Continuity and change -- The practice of eating out
Explaining continuity and change -- Methodological appendix -- References -- Index
Summary The book reports on a major research project on changes in dining out in three cities in England. It compares systematically popular practice in 1995 and 2015. Differences in taste and behaviour surrounding eating in restaurants and as guests of friends are put in the context of wider social and cultural trends.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Subject Food habits -- Social aspects.
Food habits -- Social aspects.
Restaurants -- Social aspects.
Restaurants -- Social aspects.
Restaurants.
Dinners and dining -- Social aspects.
Dinners and dining -- Social aspects.
Dinners and dining.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Paddock, Jessica, author.
Whillans, Jennifer, author.
Other Form: Print version: 1526134756 9781526134752 (OCoLC)1120094030
ISBN 9781526134769 (electronic book)
1526134764 (electronic book)
9781526134776 (ePub ebook)
1526134772
1526134756
9781526134752