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      • Trusted Partner
        Food & society
        December 2014

        Food Tourism

        A Practical Marketing Guide

        by John Stanley, Linda Stanley

        The fastest growth in tourism is the culinary sector. Covering farmers markets, taste tours, agri-entertainment, glamping, restaurants, farm shops and more, food tourism has become both an important part of holidaying and a purpose in itself. With growth occurring in most developed countries and tourists searching out culinary tourism throughout the world, this book provides an overall direction to the development of food tourism and a section on the future of this trend.

      • Trusted Partner
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        January 2018

        Religion, regulation, consumption

        Globalising kosher and halal markets

        by John Lever, Johan Fischer

      • Trusted Partner
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        January 2018

        Religion, regulation, consumption

        Globalising kosher and halal markets

        by John Lever, Johan Fischer

      • Trusted Partner
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        January 2018

        Religion, regulation, consumption

        Globalising kosher and halal markets

        by John Lever, Johan Fischer

        This book explores the emergence and expansion of global kosher and halal markets with a particular focus on the UK and Denmark. Kosher is a Hebrew term meaning "fit" or "proper" while halal is an Arabic word that literally means "permissible" or "lawful". This is the first book to explore kosher and halal comparatively at different levels of the social scale such as individual consumption, the marketplace, religious organisations and the state. Kosher and halal markets have become global in scope and states, manufacturers, restaurants, shops, certifiers and consumers around the world are faced with ever stricter and more complex kosher and halal requirements. The research question in this book is: What are the consequences of globalising kosher and halal markets?

      • Trusted Partner
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        2021

        Taste of the Soviet Union: Food and Eaters in the Art of Life and the Art of Cinema (mid-1960s - mid-1980s)

        by Olena Stiazhkina

        This book is about Soviet people - women, men, children - who ate at home, at work, on the road, in kindergartens and schools, in the system of the Soviet canteens. It describes those who fought for their food in long queues to the empty shops, at collective farm markets, gathered it in their own gardens, obtained it through bribes and barter exchanges and stole it at workplaces. It is about those who created the food surpluses in the system of the shadow economy and about those who refused food as a way of rebellion against the system and about those who managed to preserve national cuisine despite its deliberate extermination by the Bolsheviks and calling national dishes "simple nationalism." Food culture is considered not only as a sign of the late Soviet consumer revolution, but also as one of the powerful mechanisms of social engineering and (self) coercion. The real world of Soviet eaters is analysed together with the artistic world where filmmakers created and broadcasted the images of Soviet food, as an object representing repressive society in which taste was as problematic and almost unattainable as food and freedom associated with taste and choice.

      • Trusted Partner
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        2021

        Ukraine. Food and History

        by Olena Braichenko, Maryna Hrymych, Ihor Lylo, Vitaly Reznichenko

        This book tells the story of Ukrainian cuisine by placing it in its cultural context and presenting Ukrainian cooking as part of the intangible cultural heritage of Ukraine. The publication also explores the potential of cultural diplomacy and includes recipes that will make you fall in love with Ukraine.

      • Trusted Partner
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        January 2021

        The social significance of dining out

        A study of continuity and change

        by Alan Warde, Jessica Paddock, Jennifer Whillans

        Dining out used to be considered exceptional; however, the Food Standards Authority reported that in 2014, one meal in six was eaten away from home in Britain. Previously considered a necessary substitute for an inability to obtain a meal in a family home, dining out has become a popular recreational activity for a majority of the population, offering pleasure as well as refreshment. Based on a major mixed-methods research project on dining out in England, this book offers a unique comparison of the social differences between London, Bristol and Preston from 1995 to 2015, charting the dynamic relationship between eating in and eating out. Addressing topics such as the changing domestic divisions of labour around food preparation, the variety of culinary experience for different sections of the population, and class differences in taste and the pleasures and satisfactions associated with dining out, the authors explore how the practice has evolved across the three cities.

      • Trusted Partner
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        June 2023

        Sugar rush

        Science, politics and the demonisation of fatness

        by Karen Throsby

        In the second decade of the twenty-first century, the crusade against sugar rose to prominence as an urgent societal problem about which something needed to be done. Sugar was transformed into the common enemy in a revived 'war on obesity' levelled at 'unhealthy' foods and the people who enjoy them. Are the evils of sugar based on purely scientific fact, or are other forces at play? Sugar rush explores the social life of sugar in its rise to infamy. The book reveals how competing understandings of the 'problem' of sugar are smoothed over through appeals to science and the demonization of fatness, with politics and popular culture preying on our anxieties about what we eat. Drawing on journalism, government policy, public health campaigns, self-help books, autobiographies and documentaries, the book argues that this rush to blame sugar is a phenomenon of its time, finding fertile ground in the era of austerity and its attendant inequalities. Inviting readers to resist the comforting certainties of the attack on sugar, Sugar rush shows how this actually represents a politics of despair, entrenching rather than disrupting the inequality-riddled status quo.

      • Trusted Partner
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        June 2023

        Sugar rush

        Science, politics and the demonisation of fatness

        by Karen Throsby

        In the second decade of the twenty-first century, the crusade against sugar rose to prominence as an urgent societal problem about which something needed to be done. Sugar was transformed into the common enemy in a revived 'war on obesity' levelled at 'unhealthy' foods and the people who enjoy them. Are the evils of sugar based on purely scientific fact, or are other forces at play? Sugar rush explores the social life of sugar in its rise to infamy. The book reveals how competing understandings of the 'problem' of sugar are smoothed over through appeals to science and the demonization of fatness, with politics and popular culture preying on our anxieties about what we eat. Drawing on journalism, government policy, public health campaigns, self-help books, autobiographies and documentaries, the book argues that this rush to blame sugar is a phenomenon of its time, finding fertile ground in the era of austerity and its attendant inequalities. Inviting readers to resist the comforting certainties of the attack on sugar, Sugar rush shows how this actually represents a politics of despair, entrenching rather than disrupting the inequality-riddled status quo.

      • Trusted Partner
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        May 2020

        The social significance of dining out

        A study of continuity and change

        by Alan Warde, Jessica Paddock, Jennifer Whillans

        The social significance of dining out is a study of the culinary tastes and practices people living in London, Bristol and Preston in 1995 and 2015. Based on surveys and interviews it analyses one of the currently most popular of recreational activities, put into a context of other eating activities and significant social trends. Topics covered include changing frequency and meaning of dining out, patterns of domestic hospitality, changing domestic divisions of labour around food preparation, the variety of culinary experience for different sections of the population, class differences in taste and the pleasures and satisfactions associated with eating out. The results address sociological debates about culture, food and taste. The subject matter is central to the work of many different disciplines and will be read by scholars, researchers, students and the general public.

      • Trusted Partner
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        May 2020

        The social significance of dining out

        A study of continuity and change

        by Alan Warde, Jessica Paddock, Jennifer Whillans

        The social significance of dining out is a study of the culinary tastes and practices people living in London, Bristol and Preston in 1995 and 2015. Based on surveys and interviews it analyses one of the currently most popular of recreational activities, put into a context of other eating activities and significant social trends. Topics covered include changing frequency and meaning of dining out, patterns of domestic hospitality, changing domestic divisions of labour around food preparation, the variety of culinary experience for different sections of the population, class differences in taste and the pleasures and satisfactions associated with eating out. The results address sociological debates about culture, food and taste. The subject matter is central to the work of many different disciplines and will be read by scholars, researchers, students and the general public.

      • Trusted Partner
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        March 2021

        Religion, regulation, consumption

        Globalising kosher and halal markets

        by John Lever, Johan Fischer

        This book explores the emergence and expansion of global kosher and halal markets with a particular focus on the UK and Denmark. Kosher is a Hebrew term meaning 'fit' or 'proper' while halal is an Arabic word that literally means 'permissible' or 'lawful'. This is the first book to explore kosher and halal comparatively at different levels of the social scale such as individual consumption, the marketplace, religious organisations and the state. Kosher and halal markets have become global in scope and states, manufacturers, restaurants, shops, certifiers and consumers around the world are faced with ever stricter and more complex kosher and halal requirements. The research question in this book is: What are the consequences of globalising kosher and halal markets?

      • Trusted Partner
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        May 2020

        The social significance of dining out

        A study of continuity and change

        by Alan Warde, Jessica Paddock, Jennifer Whillans

        The social significance of dining out is a study of the culinary tastes and practices people living in London, Bristol and Preston in 1995 and 2015. Based on surveys and interviews it analyses one of the currently most popular of recreational activities, put into a context of other eating activities and significant social trends. Topics covered include changing frequency and meaning of dining out, patterns of domestic hospitality, changing domestic divisions of labour around food preparation, the variety of culinary experience for different sections of the population, class differences in taste and the pleasures and satisfactions associated with eating out. The results address sociological debates about culture, food and taste. The subject matter is central to the work of many different disciplines and will be read by scholars, researchers, students and the general public.

      • Trusted Partner
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        May 2022

        The social significance of dining out

        A study of continuity and change

        by Alan Warde, Jessica Paddock, Jennifer Whillans

        'This is a remarkable book that will be of wide interest to sociologists of consumption and scholars of food studies more generally.' British Journal of Sociology 'This is an exquisitely detailed and deliberate sociology of the ordinary restaurant meal and dinner with friends . It is the perfect book to teach with, and I will do so.' Contemporary Sociology Dining out used to be considered exceptional. However, the Food Standards Authority reported that in 2014, one meal in six was eaten away from home in Britain. Previously considered a necessary substitute for an inability to obtain a meal in a family home, dining out has become a popular recreational activity for a majority of the population, offering pleasure as well as refreshment. Based on a major mixed-methods research project on dining out in England, this book offers a unique comparison of the social differences between London, Bristol and Preston from 1995 to 2015, charting the dynamic relationship between eating in and eating out. Addressing topics such as the changing domestic divisions of labour around food preparation, the variety of culinary experience for different sections of the population, and class differences in taste and the pleasures and satisfactions associated with dining out, the authors explore how the practice has evolved across the three cities.

      • Trusted Partner
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        January 2025

        Serving the public

        The good food revolution in schools, hospitals and prisons

        by Kevin Morgan

        A revealing account of what we feed our citizens in schools, hospitals and prisons. Access to good food is the litmus test of a society's commitment to social justice and sustainable development. This book explores the 'good food revolution' in public institutions, asking what broader lessons can be learned. In schools the book examines the challenge of the whole school approach, where the message of the classroom is being aligned with the offer of the dining room. In hospitals it looks at the struggle to put nutrition on a par with medicine and shape a health service worthy of the name. And in prisons it shows how good food can bring hope and dignity to prisoners, helping them to rehabilitate themselves. Drawing on evidence from the UK and the US, Serving the public highlights how public institutions are harnessing the power of purchase to secure public health, social justice and ecological integrity. The quest for good food in these institutions is an important part of the struggle to redeem the public sphere and repair the damage wrought by forty years of neoliberalism.

      • Trusted Partner
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        June 2023

        Sugar rush

        Science, politics and the demonisation of fatness

        by Karen Throsby

        In the second decade of the twenty-first century, the crusade against sugar rose to prominence as an urgent societal problem about which something needed to be done. Sugar was transformed into the common enemy in a revived 'war on obesity' levelled at 'unhealthy' foods and the people who enjoy them. Are the evils of sugar based on purely scientific fact, or are other forces at play? Sugar rush explores the social life of sugar in its rise to infamy. The book reveals how competing understandings of the 'problem' of sugar are smoothed over through appeals to science and the demonization of fatness, with politics and popular culture preying on our anxieties about what we eat. Drawing on journalism, government policy, public health campaigns, self-help books, autobiographies and documentaries, the book argues that this rush to blame sugar is a phenomenon of its time, finding fertile ground in the era of austerity and its attendant inequalities. Inviting readers to resist the comforting certainties of the attack on sugar, Sugar rush shows how this actually represents a politics of despair, entrenching rather than disrupting the inequality-riddled status quo.

      • Trusted Partner
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        June 2023

        Sugar rush

        Science, politics and the demonisation of fatness

        by Karen Throsby

        In the second decade of the twenty-first century, the crusade against sugar rose to prominence as an urgent societal problem about which something needed to be done. Sugar was transformed into the common enemy in a revived 'war on obesity' levelled at 'unhealthy' foods and the people who enjoy them. Are the evils of sugar based on purely scientific fact, or are other forces at play? Sugar rush explores the social life of sugar in its rise to infamy. The book reveals how competing understandings of the 'problem' of sugar are smoothed over through appeals to science and the demonization of fatness, with politics and popular culture preying on our anxieties about what we eat. Drawing on journalism, government policy, public health campaigns, self-help books, autobiographies and documentaries, the book argues that this rush to blame sugar is a phenomenon of its time, finding fertile ground in the era of austerity and its attendant inequalities. Inviting readers to resist the comforting certainties of the attack on sugar, Sugar rush shows how this actually represents a politics of despair, entrenching rather than disrupting the inequality-riddled status quo.

      • Vegetarian cookery
        March 2012

        My Goodness

        Easy Wholesome Food

        by Liz. Nolan

        Simple recipes. Wholesome ingredients. Delicious meals. Vegetarian cooking doesn’t get better than this. Liz Nolan developed her passion for healthy and nutritious food at the Wholemeal Café in London and she now works as a nutritional therapist. In My Goodness she has brought together her favourite easy-to-cook vegetarian recipes for every meal of the day. So whether it’s an apricot and oatmeal scone for breakfast, a butterbean and coconut soup for lunch, or a chickpea and red lentil curry for dinner, this collection has something for you. Plus there are breads to bake, yoghurts to blend and, of course, dessert. Be inspired!

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