Fast Food/Slow Food The Cultural Economy of the Global Food System

by Wilk, Richard; Banwell, Cathy; Bestor, Theodore C.; Burton, Michael L.; Dixon, Jane; Egan, James A.; Hinde, Sarah; Imbruce, Valerie; Koenig, Dolores; Lyon, Sarah; Matejowsky, Ty; McIntyre, Heather; Mintz, Sidney; Nero, Karen L.; Paxson, Heather; Pilcher,

• ISBN13: 9780759109155
• ISBN10: 075910915X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-08-24
• Publisher: AltaMira Press

Summary

Wilk and his colleagues draw upon their own international field experience to examine how food systems are changing around the globe. The authors offer a cultural perspective that is mising in other economic and developmental studies, and provide rich ethnographic data on markets, industrial production, and food economies. This new book will appeal to professionals in economic and environmental anthropology economic development, agricultural economics, consumer behavior, nutritional sciences, environmental sustainability, and globalization studies.

Table of Contents

Part I: Introduction
Food at Moderate Speeds	3	(10)
Sidney Mintz
From Wild Weeds to Artisanal Cheese	13	(18)
Richard Wilk
Part II: Whole Food Economies: Breaking Down Dichotomies
Building Lives with Food: Production, Circulation, and Consumption of Food in Yap	31	(18)
James A. Egan
Michael L. Burton
Karen L. Nero
Food for the Malian Middle Class: An Invisible Cuisine	49	(20)
Dolores Koenig
Taco Bell, Maseca, and Slow Food: A Postmodern Apocalypse for Mexico's Peasant Cuisine?	69	(14)
Jeffrey M. Pilcher
From Hunger Foods to Heritage Foods: Challenges to Food Localization in Lao PDR	83	(14)
Penny Van Esterik
Tasting the Worlds of Yesterday and Today: Culinary Tourism and Nostalgia Foods in Post-Soviet Russia	97	(18)
Melissa L. Caldwell
Part III: The Contradictions of Industrial Food
Kaiten-zushi and Konbini: Japanese Food Culture in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction	115	(16)
Theodore C. Bestor
Rice Ball Rivalries: Japanese Convenience Stores and the Appetite of Late Capitalism	131	(14)
Gavin Hamilton Whitelaw
Global Tastes, Local Contexts: An Ethnographic Account of Fast Food Expansion in San Fernando City, the Philippines	145	(18)
Ty Matejowsky
Part IV: Transforming Markets and Reconnecting with Consumers
From the Bottom Up: The Global Expansion of Chinese Vegetable Trade for New York City Markets	163	(18)
Valerie Imbruce
The Role of Ideology in New Mexico's CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) Organizations: Conflicting Visions between Growers and Members	181	(20)
Lois Stanford
Artisanal Cheese and Economies of Sentiment in New England	201	(18)
Heather Paxson
Fast and Slow Food in the Fast Lane: Automobility and the Australian Diet	219	(22)
Cathy Banwell
Jane Dixon
Sarah Hinde
Heather McIntyre
Just Java: Roasting Fair Trade Coffee	241	(18)
Sarah Lyon
Index	259	(6)
About the Contributors	265