Fast food/slow food : the cultural economy of the global food system /
Wilk, Richard R.
Lanham, Md. ; Plymouth : Altamira Press,
c2006.
A collection of papers presented at a conference.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
PART I: INTRODUCTION: Food at moderate speed / Sidney Mintz -- From wild weeds to artisanal cheese / Richard Wilk -- PART II: WHOLE FOOD ECONOMIES: BREAKING DOWN DICHOTOMIES: Building lives with food production, circulation, and consumption of food in Yap / James A. Egan, Michael L. Burton, and Karen L. Nero -- Food for the Malian middle class: an invisible cuisine / dolores Koenig -- Taco Bell, Maseca, and slow food: a postmodern apocalypse for Mexico's peasant cuisine? / Jeffrey M. Pilcher -- From hunger: foods to heritage foods: challenges to food localization in Lao PDR / Penny Van Esterik -- Tasting the worlds of yesterday and today: culinary tourism and nostalgia foods in the post-Soviet Russia / Melissa L. Caldwell -- PART III: THE CONTRADICTIONS OF INDUSTRIAL FOOD: Kaiten-zushi and konbini Japanese food culture in the age of mechanical reproduction / Theodore Bestor -- Rice ball rivalries: Japanese convenience stores and the appetite of late capitalism / Gavin Hamilton Whitelaw --Global tastes, local contexts: an ethnographic account of fast food expression in San Francisco City, the Philippines / Ty Matejowsky -- PART IV: TRANSFORMING MARKETS AND RECONNECTING WITH CONSUMERS:  From the bottom up: the global expansion of Chinese vegetable trade in New York City markets / Valerie Imbruce -- The role of ideology in New Mexico's CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) organizations: conflicting visions between growers and members / Lois Stanford -- Artisanal Cheese and economics of sentiment in New England / Heather Paxson -- Fast and slow food in the fast lane: automobility and the Australian diet / Cathy Banwell, Jane Dixon, Sarah Hinde, and Heather McIntyre -- Just Java; roasting fair trade coffee / Sarah Lyon.
Food industry and trade
Convenience foods
Cooking
Food habits
International economic integration