Consumption, food, and taste : culinary antinomies and commodity culture /
Consumption, food & taste
Alan Warde
- London : SAGE, 1997
- v, 231 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Acknowledgements. - Abbreviations. - Introduction. - Pt. 1. Issues of taste. 1. Consumption, taste and social change. 2. The new manners of food: trends and their sociological interpretation. 3. Measuring change in taste. - Pt. II. Indicators of taste: changing food habits. 4. Novelty and tradition. 5. Health and indulgence. 6. Economy and extravagance. 7. Convenience and care. - Pt. III. Interpretations of taste. 8. The reconstruction of taste. 9. Theories of consumption and the case of food. - Notes. - Appendix: technical details about methodology. - References. - Index.