Everyday Eating in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden

Jukka Gronow is Professor Emeritus at the Department of Social Research at the University of Helsinki, Finland.Lotte Holm is Professor at the Department of Food and Resource Economics at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

• Notes on ContributorsPrefaceAcknowledgements1. Introduction: Eating in Modern Everyday Life2. The Food We Eat 3. The Daily Rhythm of Eating4. The Social Context and Conduct of Eating5. Family Meals on the Decline?6. The Complexity of Meals7. Eating Out, Having Guests8. Cooking and Gender9. Food Insecurity10. Eating Practices and Dietary Health11. Eating Sustainably12. Conclusions: Continuity and Change in Everyday Eating13. AppendixReferencesIndex

This book is a must-read for researchers and students working in the sociology of food. Eating is treated as a social phenomenon in its own right, and the book covers all of the key issues. The cutting-edge, theoretically informed analyses of eating in modern everyday lives are based upon solid and systematic empirical comparison, not only across the different Nordic countries, but also across time.