The cultural politics of food, taste, and identity : a global perspective / edited by Steffan Igor Ayora-Diaz

Published: London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.
Copyright Date: ©2021
Physical Description: vi, 270 pages : map ; 24 cm
Additional Creators: Ayora Díaz, Steffan Igor

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Contents

Introduction : the cultural politics of taste in global perspective / Steffan Igor Ayora Diaz -- Food, taste and identity in the global arena / Steffan Igor Ayora Diaz -- Centralization and standardization of taste : dashi in Japan / Yoshimi Osawa -- Heritagization of fermented taste in Southern Fukui, Japan / Shingo Hamada -- Tides high and low : the changing landscapes of Gongfu Cha tea culture in contemporary China / Lanlan Kuang -- Italian cheese in the global heritage arena / Cristina Grasseni -- The gastronomic capital of the world : food, politics, and identity in Lyon / Rachel E. Black -- Fetid flesh and fragrant fare : food, scandal, and identity in contemporary Bengal / Ishita Banerjee-Dube -- Tasting "innovation" : the politics of taste in contemporary restaurant food in Seville, Spain / Steffan Igor Ayora Diaz and Gabriela Vargas Cetina -- Of corn and coconuts : taste and the cultural politics of gastronationalism in Belize / Lyra Spang -- Street food to restaurant : politics of eating and cultural heritage in Antigua Guatemala / Walter E. Little -- Popular urban taste and mass culture : chancho and terremoto in Chile / Isabel Aguilera and Alejandra Alvear -- Foreign influences in Polish culinary taste during the twentieth century / Katarzyna J. Cwiertka -- Kimchi's transnational journey : tastes of authenticity and ambiguity / Sonia Ryang -- Tasting quinoa : from indigenous food to "healthy" US dining / Christina Morris and Clare A. Sammells -- The taste of the Mediterranean diet : food, taste and identity in the Campania Region, South Italy / Rossella Galletti -- Soylent : the cultural politics of functional and tasteless food / Andrew Ofstehage -- Postface : heritage-making after the US century / Krishnendu Ray.

Summary

The Cultural Politics of Food, Taste, and Identity examines 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. 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. In 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.

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Cross-cultural studies

ISBN

1350162728 hardback
9781350162723 hardback
9781350162747 (ePub ebook)
9781350162730 (PDF ebook)

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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