Food for Thought

Chapter 1. Food for thought: An introduction (Simona Stano). - Part 1: Food, taste, and global cultures. - Chapter 2. Alimentation: A general semiotic model of socialising food (Ugo Volli). - Chapter 3. On the face of food (Massimo Leone). - Chapter 4. Phenomenology of a symbolic dish: What Su Porceddu teaches us about food, meaning, and identification (Franciscu Sedda). - Chapter 5. Food heritage, memory and cultural identity in Saudi Arabia: The case of Jeddah (Cristina Greco). - Chapter 6. Bittersweet home: The sweets craft in the urban life of Tripoli, Lebanon (Henry Peck). - Part 2: Law, power, and media. - Chapter 7. An act authorizing sterilization of persons convicted of murder, rape, chicken stealing. . . : Southern chicken theft laws as an expression of racialised political violence (Daniel Thoennessen). - Chapter 8. Free breakfast and Taco trucks: Case studies of food as rhetorical homology in political discourse (Suzanne Cope). - Chapter 9. Superfine quality, absolute purity, daily freshness : The language of advertising in united cattle products marketing of tripe to British workers in the 1920s and 1930s (David Bell). - Chapter 10. New generations and axiologies of food in cinema and new media (Bruno Surace). - Part 3: Nutrition and culture. Chapter 11. Beyond nutrition: Meanings, narratives, myths (Simona Stano). - Chapter 12. Laughing alone with salad: Nutrition-based inequity in women s diet and wellness media (Emily Contois). - Chapter 13. Virtue and disease: Narrative accounts of orthorexia
nervosa
(Lauren Wynne).