Main entry:

Finkelstein, Joanne.

Title & Author:

Fashioning appetite : restaurants and the making of modern identity / Joanne Finkelstein.

Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, 2013.

Description:

xix, 219 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Series:

Arts and traditions of the table : perspectives on culinary history

Notes:
Follow-up to: Dining out : a sociology of modern manners. 1989.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-210) and index.
1. Fashionable food -- Defining the restaurant -- Toying with food -- Food rules -- The universal meal and the origins of taste -- Fashioning appetite -- The status of food -- 2. Taste and desire -- The food economy -- Taste -- Longing -- Identity for sale -- 3. Eating habits -- Classic studies -- Inside the restaurant -- Service and style -- 4. Michelin stars and Western obesity -- The perfect meal -- The body as spectacle -- Susan Boyle -- The spectacle of food -- Marketing food -- 5. The anomic consumer -- Self-absorption -- Inventing the self -- The beginning of cool -- The city and modern identity -- The quest -- The cold present -- 6. The banality of food -- Cold restaurants -- Life at the surface.

ISBN:

9780231167963 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0231167962 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
(e-book)
9780231537124
0231537123

Subject:

Restaurants Social aspects.
Dinners and dining Social aspects.
Food Social aspects.
Appetite Social aspects.
Identity (Psychology)
Civilization, Western.
Civilization, Modern 1950-
Restaurants Aspect social.
Aliments Aspect social.
Appétit Aspect social.
Identité (Psychologie)
Civilisation occidentale.
Civilisation 1950-
Civilization, Modern.

Form/genre:

Nonfiction.

Added entries:

Finkelstein, Joanne. Dining out.
Arts and traditions of the table.

Restaurants and the making of modern identity

Holdings:

Location: Library main 285819
Call No.: BIB 225744
Status: Available