Food, health and identity / edited by Pat Caplan.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Approaches to the study of food, health and identity / Pat Caplan -- 2. Family meals : a thing of the past? / Anne Murcott -- 3. Marriages, weddings and their cakes / Simon Charsley -- 4. How British is British food? / Allison James -- 5. Fast food/spoiled identity : Iranian migrants in the British catering trade / Lynn Harbottle -- 6. 'Bacon sandwiches got the better of me' : meat-eating and vegetarianism in South-East London / Anna Willetts -- 7. Urban pleasure? On the meaning of eating out in a northern city / Lydia Martens and Alan Warde -- 8. 'We never eat like this at home' : food on holiday / Janice Williams -- 9. Too hard to swallow? The palatability of healthy eating advice / Anne Keane -- 10. Being told what to eat : conversations in a Diabetes Day Centre / Simon Cohn -- 11. Health, eating and heart attacks : Glaswegian Punjabi women's thinking about everyday food / Hannah Bradby -- 12. Scaremonger or scapegoat? The role of the media in the emergence of food as a social issue / Jacquie Reilly and David Miller -- 13. Declining meat : past, present ... and future imperfect? / Nick Fiddes.

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