Consuming Geographies: We Are Where We Eat

by Gill Valentine and David J. Bell

Book Overview

Food occupies a seemingly mundane position in all our lives, yet the ways we think about shopping, cooking and eating are actually intensely reflexive. The daily pick and mix of our eating habits is one way we experience spatial scale. From the relationship of our food intake to our body-shape, to the impact of our tastes upon global food-production regimes, we all read food consumption as a practice which impacts on our sense of place.
Drawing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415137683
• ISBN13: 9780415137683
• Release Date: May 1997
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.9" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

From local to global food

Consuming Geographies probably will be one of the best books on how food constructs our social life. Beardsworth and Keil explain th main role of food and identity in different social scenarios. The introduction of the book gives the state of the art if someone is trying to study food and identity. Finally, the bibliography can give good references for those interested in foodways.