Fashioning appetite
Subtitle: restaurants and the making of modern identity
By: Joanne Finkelstein
Series: Arts and traditions of the table : perspectives on culinary history; Arts and traditions of the table
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9780231167963
Subjects: Social aspects; Food; Modern Civilization; Dinners and dining; Identity (Psychology); Appetite; Western Civilization; Restaurants
Description: In this follow-up study to her Dining Out, sociologist Joanne Finkelstein takes a fragment of social life--restaurant dining--and uses it to examine the dramatic effect our public behavior and social habits have on our private desires and sense of identity.
Notes: "First published by I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd. in the United Kingdom, 2012"--T.p. verso.

Follow-up to: Dining out : a sociology of modern manners. 1989.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Fashionable food; title: Defining the restaurant; title: Toying with food; title: Food rules; title: The universal meal and the origins of taste; title: Fashioning appetite; title: The status of food; title: 2. Taste and desire; title: The food economy; title: Taste; title: Longing; title: Identity for sale; title: 3. Eating habits; title: Classic studies; title: Inside the restaurant; title: Service and style; title: 4. Michelin stars and Western obesity; title: The perfect meal; title: The body as spectacle; title: Susan Boyle; title: The spectacle of food; title: Marketing food; title: 5. The anomic consumer; title: Self-absorption; title: Inventing the self; title: The beginning of cool; title: The city and modern identity; title: The quest; title: The cold present; title: 6. The banality of food; title: Cold restaurants; title: Life at the surface.