Fashioning Appetite : Restaurants and the Making of Modern Identity. [electronic resource]

By:

Finkelstein, Joanne

Material type: Text

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ISBN:

9780857733887

Subject(s):

Appetite -- Social aspects.;Dinners and dining -- Social aspects.;Food -- Social aspects.;Restaurants -- Social aspects

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Fashioning Appetite : Restaurants and the Making of Modern IdentityDDC classification:

647.95

LOC classification:

TX911.2 .F56 2014

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Contents:

Cover Page -- Author Bio -- Endorsements -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Fashionable Food -- 2 Taste and Desire -- 3 Eating Habits -- 4 Michelin Stars and Western Obesity -- 5 The Anomic Consumer -- 6 The Banality of Food -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover.

Summary: It can no longer be said that we are just what we eat. In the contested sphere of gastronomy divided between the golden arches of McDonalds and the prized stars of Michelin where personal identity is expressed through a frenetic quest for socially-approved tastes and distinctions, where, when, how and with whom we eat has become just as fundamental in defining who we are. In this follow-on to her classic 1989 work Dining Out: A Sociology of Modern Manners, Joanne Finkelstein takes a fragment of social life, dining out in restaurants, and uses it to examine the nature and meaning of manners and social relations in the modern world.

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It can no longer be said that we are just what we eat. In the contested sphere of gastronomy divided between the golden arches of McDonalds and the prized stars of Michelin where personal identity is expressed through a frenetic quest for socially-approved tastes and distinctions, where, when, how and with whom we eat has become just as fundamental in defining who we are. In this follow-on to her classic 1989 work Dining Out: A Sociology of Modern Manners, Joanne Finkelstein takes a fragment of social life, dining out in restaurants, and uses it to examine the nature and meaning of manners and social relations in the modern world.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2020. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.