Odysseys of Plates and Palates: Food, Society and Sociality

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Is food merely fuel to keep us alive? Consuming food is not simply about biological and nutritional needs. Rather, food, like anything people engage with, is inherently multi-faceted. The context of food and its discourses involve an interplay of our cognition and is a medium for our memory and identity. Food, from its mundane modes of production to the consumption of a single meal or even 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 has been discussed since ancient times, appearing in numerous ancient texts. 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. Odysseys of Plates and Palates: Food, Society and Sociality Table of Contents Introduction: Odysseys of Plates and Palates: Food, Society and Sociality in the Past, Present and Future Part I Historicity, Literature, the Visual Arts and Food The Hunting Game: Chasing the Hare, Killing the Wild Boar The Negative Banquet of Odysseus and the Cyclops Plato on Food and Necessary and Unnecessary Appetites in the Republic Why Do They Care? Understanding the Need to Explain the Kosher Laws In Search of Sacred Tree: Consumption of Olive Oil in Evliya Çelebi’s Travelogue From Eating by Necessity to Rather do Without: Food Habits, Social Classes and Wartime Food Situation in Britain On English Food: Plain and Simple or Just Plain Bad Part II Identity, Food and the Social Context Food and Culture: Continuity and Change in the Yoruba of West Africa and Their Diasporas Kneidalach, Paprika and the Spanish Omelet: Jewish Food and Identity in Barcelona Today From ‘Clean, Fresh, Healthy’ to ‘Nehad the Jordanian’: Hummus Advertisements in Israel, 1958-2013 For the Love of Pork: Eating in Ethnic Enclaves Nationalism and Food: The Morality of Eating within a Greek / Arvanite Community Constructing Women Identities through Food Memoirs Food, Nutrition and Older People Living in Rural Communities Part III Edible Syncretism, Hybridity, Globalization and Food How Christian Fasting Practices Affect Levantine Cuisine Meat Is More than Food? Representations of Meat and Willingness to Change Consumption Habits Standardization of Healthy Dinner Practices: The Case of Fish Consumption in Norway The Global Grocery Store and the End of Grandma’s Traditional Recipe