Food Studies
eBook - PDF

Food Studies

A Hands-On Guide

  1. 221 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Food Studies

A Hands-On Guide

About this book

A 2019 Choice Outstanding Academic Title

Traditional food studies textbooks tend to emphasize theoretical concepts and text-based approaches. Yet food is sensory, tactile, and experiential. Food Studies: A Hands-on Guide is the first book to provide a practical introduction to food studies. Offering a unique, innovative approach to learning and teaching, Willa Zhen presents creative hands-on activities that can easily be done in a traditional classroom – without the need for a student kitchen. Major theories and key concepts in food studies are covered in an engaging, tangible way, alongside topics such as food production, consumption, technology, identity and culture, and globalization.

A fantastic resource for supporting student engagement and learning, the book features:

- practical activities, such as grinding grains to learn about the importance of food technology; working with restaurant menus to understand changes in food trends, tastes, and ingredients; writing food poetry; and many more
- pedagogical features such as learning objectives, discussion questions, suggested readings, and a glossary
- a companion website offering lesson plans, worksheets, and links to additional resources, found here: https://onlineresources.bloomsbury.com/cw/food-studies/.

This is the perfect introduction for students of food studies, anthropology of food, food geography, food hospitality, sociology of food, food history, and gastronomy.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. Figures
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Introducing Food Studies
  10. 1 From Foodie to Food Studies
  11. 2 Defining Food: Meals, Morals, and Manners
  12. 3 Food, Identity, and Culture
  13. 4 From Producers to Consumers
  14. 5 Food and Technology
  15. 6 Globalization and Food: Here, There, Everywhere, and Nowhere?
  16. Epilogue
  17. Glossary
  18. References
  19. Index

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