Fast Food/Slow Food
The Cultural Economy of the Global Food System
Contributions by Cathy Banwell, Theodore C. Bestor, Michael L. Burton, Jane Dixon, James A. Egan, Sarah Hinde, Valerie Imbruce, Dolores Koenig, Sarah Lyon, Ty Matejowsky, Heather McIntyre, Sidney Mintz, Karen L. Nero, Heather Paxson, Jeffery Pilcher, Lois Stanford, Penny Van Esterik Professor Emerita, York University; University of Guelph, Gavin Whitelaw Edited by Richard Wilk Indiana University
Publication date:
25 August 2006Length of book:
272 pagesPublisher
AltaMira PressDimensions:
239x160mm6x9"
ISBN-13: 9780759109148
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.
Setting out to explore the range of food markets, Fast Food/Slow Food reveals global and corporate connections in the slow food movement and local and regional variations of the fast food industry. More than that, this collection looks at food in the middle, where Russian culinary tours meet Lao survival food in trendy American chefs' offerings, ancient Japanese fast foods enter Seven Eleven and transform it, and food of moderate pace is consumed in everyday spaces. Wilk and the contributors make accessible for the rest of us how economic anthropology pulls back a layer in our conversation about transnational food and foodways.