Food and Everyday Life - by Thomas M Conroy (Hardcover)

About the Book

This book is a qualitative, interpretive, phenomenological, and interdisciplinary, examination of food and food practices and their meanings in the modern world. Each chapter thematically focuses upon a particular food practice and on some key details of the examined practice, ...

Book Synopsis

This book is a qualitative, interpretive, phenomenological, and interdisciplinary, examination of food and food practices and their meanings in the modern world. Each chapter thematically focuses upon a particular food practice and on some key details of the examined practice, or on the practice's social and cultural impact.

Review Quotes

The study of foodways is a fascinating one. Following the cultural turn in the social sciences and the emergence of the field of cultural studies, scholars have turned to a focus on cultural practices, including everyday life practices. One of such practice is the practice of food. Food for humans remains a means and a rich expression of culture. A an everyday life practice, food can be examined in a wide variety of ways. This book examines food and food practices and their meanings in the contemporary world. It includes a number of approaches and topics and highlights aspects of food production, distribution, consumption and the discourse on food. Written by experts in the field, this book shows the everyday practices of food and focuses on the relationships between body, eating practices and food.

About the Author

Thomas M. Conroy is a lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Lehman College-City University of New York.