Food for thought: essays on eating and culture

Pt. I. From Pre-Modernity to the Hypermodern Age

1. Man, Machine and Refined Dining in Victorian America / Hillary Murtha

2. Shopping for What Never Was: The Rhetoric of Food Social Style and Nostalgia / Carlnita Greene

3. All You Can Eat: Sociological Reflections on Food in the Hypermodern Era / Simon Gottschalk

Pt. II. Eat Locally, Think Globally

4. Raising the Bar: The Complicated Consumption of Chocolate / Ellen E. Moore

5. Espresso Revolution: Introducing Coffee-Bar Franchising to Modern China / Jackie Cook and Robert Lee

6. Mass Agrarianism: Wal-Mart and Organic Foods / Dawn Gilpin

Pt. III. Entertaining Food and Eating

7. "Everybody Eats": The Food Network and Symbolic Capital / Megan Mullen

8. Semiotic Sound Bites: Toward an Alimentary Analysis of Popular Song / Christopher Joseph Westgate

9. Hunger and Satiety in Latin American Literature / Santiago Daydi-Tolson

Pt. IV. We Are Where We Eat

10. Reengineering "Authenticity": Tourism Encounters with Cuisine in Rural Great Britain / Craig Wight

11. Passing Time: The Ironies of Food in Prison Culture / Jim Thomas

12. Selfish Consumers: Delmonico's Restaurant and Learning to Satisfy Personal Desire / Heather Lee

13. Is it Really Better to Travel Than to Arrive? Airline Food as a Reflection of Consumer Anxiety / Guillaume de Syon

Pt. V. Come Join Us

14. Deconstructing the Myth of the Dysfunctional Black Family in the Film Soul Food / Tina M. Harris

15. Cultural Representation of Taste in Ang Lee's Eat, Drink, Man, Woman / Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley

Pt. VI. Eat, Drink and Be Public

16. Snacking as Ritual: Eating Behavior in Public Places / Phillip Vannini

17. Beyond Bread and Circuses: Professional Competitive Eating / Lawrence C. Rubin

Pt. VII. Self-Reflection in a Fun-House Mirror

18. "Gourmandizing," Gluttony and Oral Fixations: Perspectives on Overeating in the American Journal of Psychiatry, 1844 to the Present / Mallay Occhiogrosso

19. Having It His Way: The Construction of Masculinity in Fast-Food TV Advertising / Carrie Packwood Freeman and Debra Merskin.