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Culinary Capital

Autor Dr Peter Naccarato, Kathleen Lebesco
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 sep 2012
TV cookery shows hosted by celebrity chefs. Meal prep kitchens. Online grocers and restaurant review sites. Competitive eating contests, carnivals and fairs, and junk food websites and blogs. What do all of them have in common? According to authors Kathleen LeBesco and Peter Naccarato, they each serve as productive sites for understanding the role of culinary capital in shaping individual and group identities in contemporary culture.Beyond providing sustenance, food and food practices play an important social role, offering status to individuals who conform to their culture's culinary norms and expectations while also providing a means of resisting them. Culinary Capital analyzes this phenomenon in action across the landscape of contemporary culture. The authors examine how each of the sites listed above promises viewers and consumers status through the acquisition of culinary capital and, as they do so, intersect with a range of cultural values and ideologies, particularly those of gender and economic class.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780857853837
ISBN-10: 085785383X
Pagini: 160
Ilustrații: black & white illustrations
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Berg Publishers
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Drawing on textual analysis and interviews, exposes the status-generating function of many foodscape sites, including meal prep kitchens, online grocers, restaurant review websites, food television, eating contests, state fairs, and junk food blogs

Notă biografică

Peter Naccarato is Professor of English and Chair of the Humanities Division at Marymount Manhattan College, USA. Kathleen LeBesco is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Marymount Manhattan College, USA.

Cuprins

IntroductionTheorizing Culinary CapitalFixing Dinner/Fixing The Self: the Contradictions of New Trends In Food ProcurementTelevision Cooking Shows: Gender, Class and The Illusory Promise Of TransformationDemocratizing Taste? Culinary Capital In The Digital AgeCulinary Resistance: State Fairs, Competitive Eating, and "Junk" FoodiesConclusionWorks Cited

Recenzii

Sometimes a new phrase gets coined in food writing, and a few years later you wonder how you wrote without it: think Crosby's 'Columbian exchange' or Long's 'culinary tourism.' In five years we'll wonder how we did without 'culinary capital' to talk intelligently about contemporary food and foodways.
Culinary Capital is a ground-breaking study that will challenge those of us in cultural and food studies to consider the importance of culinary capital and the ways in which it permeates even the most quotidian areas of our lives, whilst provoking us to consider how we can reinscribe food with the very elitist tenets that we often work to dismantle.
Summing Up: Recommended. All levels/libraries.
The so-called "culinary capital" is the central thesis of the authors in this deceptively-slim book which examines how our individual and group identities are shaped by what we eat and drink... It will provoke thought, lead to some "light bulb" moments of realisation and possibly change some perceptions that you may have... As befitting an academic book, there is a mass of notes, bibliographic references and an extensive index at the rear, which is a good aid for research and further study.

Descriere

TV cookery shows hosted by celebrities. On-line grocers and restaurant review sites. Competitive eating contests, fairs and food blogs. Food plays a vital social role, offering status for those who conform to their culture's culinary norms. Culinary Capital analyzes this phenomenon in action across the landscape of contemporary culture.