Consuming Geographies

Food occupies a seemingly mundane position in all our lives yet the ways we think about shopping cooking and eating are actually intensely reflexive. The daily pick and mix of our eating habits is one way we experience spatial scale. From the relationship of our food intake to our body-shape to the impact of our tastes upon global food-production regimes we all read food consumption as a practice which impacts on our sense of place. Drawing on anthropological sociological and cultural readings of food consumption as well as empirical material on shopping cooking food technology and the food media this book demonstrates the importance of space and place in identity formation. We all think place (and) identity through food - we are where we eat . Language: English