Fast Food/Slow Food The Cultural Economy of the Global Food System,9780759109155

Fast Food/Slow Food The Cultural Economy of the Global Food System

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ISBN13: 9780759109155
ISBN10: 075910915X
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2006-08-24
Publisher(s): AltaMira Press
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Summary

Wilk and his colleagues draw upon their own international field experience to examine how food systems are changing around the globe. The authors offer a cultural perspective that is mising in other economic and developmental studies, and provide rich ethnographic data on markets, industrial production, and food economies. This new book will appeal to professionals in economic and environmental anthropology economic development, agricultural economics, consumer behavior, nutritional sciences, environmental sustainability, and globalization studies.

Table of Contents

Part I: Introduction
Food at Moderate Speeds
3(10)
Sidney Mintz
From Wild Weeds to Artisanal Cheese
13(18)
Richard Wilk
Part II: Whole Food Economies: Breaking Down Dichotomies
Building Lives with Food: Production, Circulation, and Consumption of Food in Yap
31(18)
James A. Egan
Michael L. Burton
Karen L. Nero
Food for the Malian Middle Class: An Invisible Cuisine
49(20)
Dolores Koenig
Taco Bell, Maseca, and Slow Food: A Postmodern Apocalypse for Mexico's Peasant Cuisine?
69(14)
Jeffrey M. Pilcher
From Hunger Foods to Heritage Foods: Challenges to Food Localization in Lao PDR
83(14)
Penny Van Esterik
Tasting the Worlds of Yesterday and Today: Culinary Tourism and Nostalgia Foods in Post-Soviet Russia
97(18)
Melissa L. Caldwell
Part III: The Contradictions of Industrial Food
Kaiten-zushi and Konbini: Japanese Food Culture in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
115(16)
Theodore C. Bestor
Rice Ball Rivalries: Japanese Convenience Stores and the Appetite of Late Capitalism
131(14)
Gavin Hamilton Whitelaw
Global Tastes, Local Contexts: An Ethnographic Account of Fast Food Expansion in San Fernando City, the Philippines
145(18)
Ty Matejowsky
Part IV: Transforming Markets and Reconnecting with Consumers
From the Bottom Up: The Global Expansion of Chinese Vegetable Trade for New York City Markets
163(18)
Valerie Imbruce
The Role of Ideology in New Mexico's CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) Organizations: Conflicting Visions between Growers and Members
181(20)
Lois Stanford
Artisanal Cheese and Economies of Sentiment in New England
201(18)
Heather Paxson
Fast and Slow Food in the Fast Lane: Automobility and the Australian Diet
219(22)
Cathy Banwell
Jane Dixon
Sarah Hinde
Heather McIntyre
Just Java: Roasting Fair Trade Coffee
241(18)
Sarah Lyon
Index 259(6)
About the Contributors 265

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