Food: the key concepts

Why study food?

Identity : Are we what we eat?

Cuisine

Madeleines : food and memory

The drama of food : divided identities

Food and sexuality

Food and gender

Embattled food

Convenience : the global food chain

Inside gigantic

The eight Fs

Responsibility : Who pays for dinner?

Health costs : food-borne illness

Health costs : fatness

Confronting the externalities

The future of food

Scenarios

The technological fix : business as usual

The anthropological fix : back to the future

Questions for essays and class discussion.