Discriminating Taste PDF Download. Download free ebook of Discriminating Taste in PDF format or read online by S. Margot Finn 9780813576886 Published on 2017-04-24 by Rutgers University Press
For the past four decades, increasing numbers of Americans have started paying greater attention to the food they eat, buying organic vegetables, drinking fine wines, and seeking out exotic cuisines. Yet they are often equally passionate about the items they refuse to eat: processed foods, generic brands, high-carb meals. While they may care deeply about issues like nutrition and sustainable agriculture, these discriminating diners also seek to differentiate themselves from the unrefined eater, the common person who lives on junk food. Discriminating Taste argues that the rise of gourmet, ethnic, diet, and organic foods must be understood in tandem with the ever-widening income inequality gap. Offering an illuminating historical perspective on our current food trends, S. Margot Finn draws numerous parallels with the Gilded Age of the late nineteenth century, an era infamous for its class divisions, when gourmet dinners, international cuisines, slimming diets, and pure foods first became fads. Examining a diverse set of cultural touchstones ranging from Ratatouille to The Biggest Loser, Finn identifies the key ways that “good food” has become conflated with high status. She also considers how these taste hierarchies serve as a distraction, leading middle-class professionals to focus on small acts of glamorous and virtuous consumption while ignoring their class’s larger economic stagnation. A provocative look at the ideology of contemporary food culture, Discriminating Taste teaches us to question the maxim that you are what you eat.
This Book was ranked at 14 by Google Books for keyword Organic.
Book ID of Discriminating Taste's Books is Dm8kDwAAQBAJ, Book which was written by S. Margot Finn have ETAG "h3CzAW8xss0"
Book which was published by Rutgers University Press since 2017-04-24 have ISBNs, ISBN 13 Code is 9780813576886 and ISBN 10 Code is 0813576881
Reading Mode in Text Status is false and Reading Mode in Image Status is true
Book which have "288 Pages" is Printed at BOOK under CategoryCooking
Book was written in en
eBook Version Availability Status at PDF is falseand in ePub is false
Book Preview
Download Discriminating Taste PDF Free
Download Discriminating Taste Books Free
Download Discriminating Taste Free
Download Discriminating Taste PDF
Download Discriminating Taste Books
No comments:
Post a Comment