Food Between the Country and the City: Ethnographies of a Changing Global Foodscape

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At a time when the relationship between 'the country' and 'the city' is in flux worldwide, the value and meanings of food associated with both places continue to be debated. Building upon the foundation of Raymond Williams' classic work, The Country and the City, this volume examines how conceptions of the country and the city invoked in relation to food not only reflect their changing relationship but have also been used to alter the very dynamics through which countryside and cities, and the food grown and eaten within them, are produced and sustained. Leading scholars in the study of food offer ethnographic studies of peasant homesteads, family farms, community gardens, state food industries, transnational supermarkets, planning offices, tourist boards, and government ministries in locales across the globe. This fascinating collection provides vital new insight into the contested dynamics of food and will be key reading for upper-level students and scholars of food studies, anthropology, history and geography. Cover Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Contributors Introduction: Approaching Food and Foodways between the Country and the City through the Work of Raymond Williams Section I: Of the Country and Its Food 1 Conflicting Wine Narratives: “Pleasing Prospects” and the Struggles in the Construction of Alentejo 2 Embodying Country-City Relations: The Chola Cuencana in Highland Ecuador 3 Bringing the City to the Country: Supermarket Expansion, Food Practices, and Aesthetics in Rural South Africa 4 Bringing It All Back Home: Reconnecting the Country and the City through Heritage Food Tourism in the French Auvergne Section II: Of the City and Its Food 5 Coming to Terms with Urban Agriculture: A Self-Critique 6 Urban Hunger and the Home Village: How Lilongwe’s Migrant Poor Stay Food Secure 7 Perceptions of the Country through the Migration of City-grown Crops: Guinean Food in Bissau and in Lisbon Section III: Of the Nation and Its Food 8 The Country, the Nation, and the Region in Representations of Portuguese Food and Cuisine 9 Hazz al-Quhuf: An Urban Satire on Peasant Life and Food from Seventeenth-century Egypt 10 Reflecting Authenticity: “Grandmother’s Yogurt” between Bulgaria and Japan 11 Unpacking the Mediterranean Diet: Agriculture, Food, and Health Notes References Index