The Cultural Politics of Food and Eating offers an ethnographically informed perspective on the ways in which people use food to make sense of life in an increasingly interconnected world.

• Uses food as a central idiom for teaching about culture and addresses broad themes such as globalization, capitalism, market economies, and consumption practices
• Spanning 5 continents, features studies from 11 countries--Japan, China, Russia, Ukraine, Germany, France, Burkina Faso, Chile, Trinidad, Mexico, and the United States
• Offers discussion of such hot topics as sushi, fast food, gourmet foods, and food scares and contamination

Acknowledgments

Introduction: James L. Watson and Melissa L. Caldwell

Part I: Food and Globalization

Part II: Yuppification, Gentrification, and Domesticating Tastes

Part III: The Political Economy of Food