Food Consumption in Global Perspective

With studies of China, India, West Africa, South America and Europe, this book provides a global perspective on food consumption in the modern world. Combing ethnographic, historical and comparative analyses, the volume celebrates the contributions of Jack Goody to the anthropology of food.

Foreword; Jack Goody 1. Introduction: Cooking, Cuisine and Class and the Anthropology of Food; Jakob A. Klein 2. Meat: A Cultural Biography in (South) China; James L. Watson 3. From Fasting to Fast Food in Kumasi, Ghana; Gracia Clark 4. Civilising Tastes: From Caste to Class in South Indian Foodways; James Staples 5. The Fast and the Fusion: Class, Colonialism and the Remaking of Comida Tipica in Highland Ecuador; Emma-Jayne Abbots 6. The High and the Low in the Making of a Portuguese National Cuisine in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries; Jose Sobral 7. Indigestion in the Long Nineteenth Century: Aspects of English Taste and Anxiety, 1800-1950; Stephen Mennell 8. Eating Out Bangladeshi-Style: Catering and Class in Diasporic East London; Johan Pottier 9. The Taste for Milk in Modern China (1865-1937); Francoise Sabban 10. Drink, Meals and Social Boundaries; Sami Zubaida