Culinary Capital

Naccarato, Peter 1970- (Author). LeBesco, Kathleen, 1970- (Added Author).

Summary: TV cookery shows hosted by celebrity chefs. Meal prep kitchens. Online grocers and restaurant review sites. Competitive eating contests, carnivals and fairs, and junk food websites and blogs. What do all of them have in common? According to authors Kathleen LeBesco and Peter Naccarato, they each serve as productive sites for understanding the role of culinary capital in shaping individual and group identities in contemporary culture. Beyond providing sustenance, food and food practices play an important social role, offering status to individuals who conform to their culture's culinary norms a.

Record details

ISBN: 0857854151
ISBN: 9780857854155
Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 pages)
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Publisher: London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Defining Culinary Capital; 2 Fixing Dinner/Fixing the Self: The Contradictions of New Trends in Food Procurement; 3 Television Cooking Shows: Gender, Class, and the Illusory Promise of Transformation; 4 Democratizing Taste?: Culinary Capital in the Digital Age; 5 Culinary Resistance: State Fairs, Competitive Eating, and "Junk" Foodies; Conclusion; Notes; Works Cited; Index.

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