"The probing and finely detailed analyses of contemporary eating practices provided by Eating Culture make it an important contribution to contemporary cultural studies. Although the book takes as its subject a topic of obvious significance both to the general public and to specialists, I am aware of no comparable study of eating practices. (The related studies in existence are, by comparison, dated.) Eating Culture breaks new ground in approaching a central aspect of contemporary life with exemplary sophistication, subtlety, and wit. One of the collection's chief merits is its inclusiveness: the selections approach the general topic from widely divergent political and philosophical perspectives. Eating Culture is a fascinating read." — Kathleen Brogan, Wellesley College<br /><br />"I am tempted to call this volume a real smorgasbord of reflection on the question of the relationship between eating and culture, but as I've learned from reading these essays, there are probably all sorts of racist, sexist, and classist assumptions informing this seemingly innocent analogy, so I'll simply say that this volume presents some of the most thoughtful and savory work I've ever read on the subject. This volume has made me reflect upon the everyday act of eating in truly unexpected ways; one doesn't eat out, or even at home, in exactly the same way after reading Eating Culture."—Michael Naas, DePaul University
[Contributors include Carol Adams, Marianna Beck, Susan Bordo, Priscilla Ferguson, Joanne Finkelstein, Dianna Fuss, Deborah R. Geis, bell hooks, David F. Krell, Steven F. Kruger, Alfonso Lingis, Mary Lukanuski, Gary Paul Nabhan, Ed Schiffer, Stephen Steinberg, Jeff Weinstein, Allen S. Weiss, Doris S. Witt, and Sharon Zukin.]
Introduction
Ron Scapp and Brian Seitz
1. Hunger as Ideology
Susan Bordo
2. "GET FAT, Don't Die!": Eating and AIDS in Gay Men's Culture
Steven F. Kruger
3. Eating Animals
Carol J. Adams
4. Eating Out: Voluptuosity for Dessert
David Farrell Krell
5. Only Food
Marianna Beck
6. The Careers of Chefs
Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson and Sharon Zukin
7. A Place at the Counter: The Onus of Oneness
Mary Lukanuski
8. Appetite
Alphonso Lingis
9. Untitled Artists' Projects by Janine Antoni, Ben Kinmont, Rirkrit Tiravanija
Laura Trippi
10. Edible Architecture, Cannibal Architecture
Allen S. Weiss
11. Food, Health, and Native-American Farming and Gathering
Gary Paul Nabhan
12. Eating the Other: Desire and Resistance
bell hooks
13. Dining Out: The Hyperactivity of Appetite
Joanne Finkelstein
14. Feeding the Audience: Food, Feminism, and Performance Art
Deborah R. Geis
15. A Supper Party
Diana Fuss
16. A Postcard History of the U.S. Restaurant
Jeff Weinstein
17. Soul Food: Where the Chitterling Hits the (Primal) Pan
Doris Witt
18. "Fable Number One": Some Myths about Consumption
Ed Schiffer
19. Bubbie's Challah
Stephen Steinberg
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