Food and culture: a reader

1. The problem of changing food habits / Margaret Mead 2. Toward a psychosociology of contemporary food consumption / Roland Barthes 3. The culinary triangle / Claude Lévi-Strauss 4. Deciphering a meal / Mary Douglas 5. The abominable pig / Marvin Harris 6. Nourishing arts / Michel De Certeau, Luce Giard 7. The recipe, the prescription, and the experiment / Jack Goody 8. Time, sugar, and sweetness / Sidney W. Mintz 9. Anorexia nervosa and its differential diagnosis / Hilde Bruch 10. Fast, feast, and flesh : the religious significance of food to medieval women / Caroline Walker Bynum 11. The appetite as voice / Joan Jacobs Brumberg 12. Anorexia nervosa : psychopathology as the crystallization of culture / Susan Bordo 13. Feeding hard bodies : food and masculinities in men's fitness magazines / Fabio Parasecoli 14. The overcooked and underdone : masculinities in Japanese food programming / T.J.M. Holden 15. Japanese mothers and Obentōs : the lunch box as ideological state apparatus / Anne Allison 16. Conflict and deference / Marjorie DeVault 17. Feeding lesbigay families / Christopher Carrington 18. How to make a national cuisine : cookbooks in contemporary India / Arjun Appadurai 19. "Real Belizean food" : building local identity in the transnational Caribbean / Rich Wilk 20. Let's cook Thai : recipes for colonialism / Lisa Heldke 21. More than just the 'big piece of chicken' : the power of race, class, and food in American consciousness" / Psyche Williams-Forson

22. Mexicanas' food voice and differential consciousness in the San Luis Valley of Colorado / Carole Counihan

23. Rooting out the causes of disease : why diabetes is so common among desert dwellers / Gary Paul Nabhan

24. Slow food and the politics of pork fat : Italian food and European identity / Alison Leitch

25. Taco Bell, Maseca, and slow food : a postmodern apocalypse for Mexico's peasant cuisine? / Jeffrey M. Pilcher

26. The raw and the rotten : punk cuisine / Dylan Clark

27. Salad days : a visual study of children's food culture / Melissa Salazar, Gail Feenstra, Jeri Ohmart

28. The chain never stops / Eric Schlosser

29. Whose "choice"? : "flexible" women workers in the tomato food chain / Deborah Barndt

30. The politics of breastfeeding : an advocacy update / Penny Van Esterik

31. The political economy of obesity : the fat pay all / Alice Julier

32. Of hamburger and social space : consuming McDonald's in Beijing / Yunxiang Yan

33. "Plastic bag housewives" and postmodern restaurants? : public and private in Bangkok's foodscape / Gisèle Yasmeen

34. The political economy of food aid in an era of agricultural biotechnology / Jennifer Clapp

35. Street credit : the cultural politics of African street children's hunger / Karen Coen Flynn

36. Want amid plenty : from hunger to inequality / Janet Poppendieck.