Odysseys Of Plates And Palates Food Society And Sociality Simeon S Magliveras by Simeon S. Magliveras, Catherine Gallin 9781848883246, 1848883242 instant download after payment.

Consuming food is not simply about biological and nutritional needs. Rather, food, like anything people engage with, is multi-faceted in nature. The context of food and its discourses involve an interplay of our cognition and a medium for our memory and identity. Food, from the mundane modes of production, to consumption of a single meal or, to the global networks which bring foods from distant lands to one’s plate, reflects and creates hegemonic relations between groups and individuals, defining ‘good’ and ‘bad’ behaviour. Food is discussed in ancient writings. It has both been described as art and is the subject of art. Food then, is an expression of how we understand our world and humanity’s place in it. This eBook covers a large temporal space: there are chapters that investigate the expressions of food in Classical Greek times up until today. Chapters also cover vast geographic spaces and places as well, from small villages in Greece, to Israel, to Spain, to ethnic enclaves in India, just to name a few. The EBook is partitioned into three parts. The first part of this volume covers the connection of food and the humanities. The second part of the EBook examines food and its relationship to identity and its social contexts. The final part of this EBook explores food as part of a global or a regional system.