Food for Thought

Lawrence C. Rubin is a professor of counselor education at St. Thomas University in Miami, Florida, and a practicing psychologist. He lives in Pompano Beach.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments      Foreword by John Shelton Lawrence      Introduction     PART I. FROM PRE–MODERNITY TO THE HYPERMODERN AGE1. Man, Machine and Refined Dining in Victorian America      Hillary Murtha2. Shopping for What Never Was: The Rhetoric of Food, Social Style and Nostalgia      Carlnita Greene3. All You Can Eat: Sociological Reflections on Food in the Hypermodern Era      Simon GottschalkPART II. EAT LOCALLY, THINK GLOBALLY4. Raising the Bar: The Complicated Consumption of Chocolate      Ellen E. Moore5. The Espresso Revolution: Introducing Coffee-Bar Franchising to Modern China      Jackie Cook and Robert Lee6. Mass Agrarianism: Wal-Mart and Organic Foods      Dawn GilpinPART III. ENTERTAINING FOOD AND EATING7. “Everybody Eats”: The Food Network and Symbolic Capital      Megan Mullen8. Semiotic Sound Bites: Toward an Alimentary Analysis of Popular Song      Christopher Joseph Westgate9. Hunger and Satiety in Latin American Literature      Santiago Daydi-TolsonPART IV. WE ARE WHERE WE EAT10. Reengineering “Authenticity”: Tourism Encounters with Cuisine in Rural Great Britain      Craig Wight11. Passing Time: The Ironies of Food in Prison Culture      Jim Thomas12. Selfish Consumers: Delmonico’s Restaurant and Learning to Satisfy Personal Desire      Heather Lee13. Is it Really Better to Travel Than to Arrive? Airline Food as a Reflection of Consumer Anxiety      Guillaume de SyonPART V. COME JOIN US14. Deconstructing the Myth of the Dysfunctional Black Family in the Film Soul Food      Tina M. Harris15. Cultural Representation of Taste in Ang Lee’s Eat, Drink, Man, Woman      Ming-Yeh T. RawnsleyPART VI. EAT, DRINK AND BE PUBLIC16. Snacking as Ritual: Eating Behavior in Public Places Phillip Vannini     17. Beyond Bread and Circuses: Professional Competitive Eating      Lawrence C. RubinPART VII. SELF-REFLECTION IN A FUN–HOUSE MIRROR18. “Gourmandizing,” Gluttony and Oral Fixations: Perspectives on Overeating in the American Journal of Psychiatry, 1844 to the Present      Dr. Mallay Occhiogrosso19. Having It His Way: The Construction of Masculinity in Fast-Food TV Advertising      Carrie Packwood Freeman and Debra MerskinAfterword by Lawrence C. Rubin      About the Contributors      Index

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