{"product_id":"the-cultural-politics-of-food-steffan-igor-ayora-diaz-9781350237407","title":"The Cultural Politics of Food, Taste, and Identity: A Global Perspective","description":"\u003ci\u003eThe Cultural Politics of Food, Taste, and Identity\u003c\/i\u003eexamines the social, cultural, and political processes that shape the experience of taste. The book positions flavor as involving all the senses, and describes the multiple ways in which taste becomes tied to local, translocal, glocal, and cosmopolitan politics of identity. Global case studies are included from Japan, China, India, Belize, Chile, Guatemala, the United States, France, Italy, Poland and Spain. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Chapters examine local responses to industrialized food and the heritage industry, and look at how professional culinary practice has become foundational for local identities. The book also discusses the unfolding construction of \"local taste\" in the context of sociocultural developments, and addresses how cultural political divides are created between meat consumption and vegetarianism, innovation and tradition, heritage and social class, popular food and authenticity, and street and restaurant food. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn addition, contributors discuss how different food products-such as kimchi, quinoa, and Soylent-have entered the international market of industrial and heritage foods, connecting different places and shaping taste and political identities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Steffan Igor Ayora-Diaz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 135023740X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781350237407\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/17\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.87lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.59d","brand":"Steffan Igor Ayora-Diaz","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44584225112319,"sku":"9781350237407","price":40.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6ad00b4d-0264-4ebc-90e2-dc2351656618.jpg?v=1701885981","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-cultural-politics-of-food-steffan-igor-ayora-diaz-9781350237407","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}