Isabelle de Solier is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Victoria University, Australia. She has published on food in the European Journal of Cultural Studies, Continuum, and the edited collection Exposing Lifestyle Television, and is the editor of Food Cultures, a special issue of Cultural Studies Review.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Foodies: Material Culture and the Self in Postindustrial Society1. Moralities of Productive Leisure and Material Culture2. Learning Things: Material Media and Gastronomic Education 3. Consuming Things: Material Cultures and Moralities of Consumption4. Dining Out: Restaurants, Serious Consumption and Molecular Gastronomy 5. Shopping: Slow Food, Ethical Consumption and the Morality of Quality6. Producing Things: Material Media and Moralities of Production7. Cooking: Manual Leisure and Material Production8. Blogging: Digital Leisure and Material Media ProductionAfterword: Materializing Moral SelvesBibliographyIndex

Food and the Self provides an interesting and broad discussion of the complexities of consumption and production in the formation of identity in postindustrial modernity … this book should be of great interest to graduate students and advanced scholars of modernity, production and consumption, and food studies. The book’s focus on food and culture among middle and upper classes in metropolises is unique and an important contribution to the literature.