Qualities of food /

How do people make judgments about what food is worth eating and what tastes good?; how do such judgments come to be shared by groups of people?; what social and organisational processes result in foods being certified as of decent or proper quality?

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Walter de Gruyter & Co
Other Authors: Harvey, Mark, 1943- (Editor), McMeekin, Andrew (Editor), Warde, Alan (Editor), Allaire, Gilles (Contributor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Manchester, England ; New York, New York : Manchester University Press, 2004.
Series:New dynamics of innovation and competition.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Description
Summary:How do people make judgments about what food is worth eating and what tastes good?; how do such judgments come to be shared by groups of people?; what social and organisational processes result in foods being certified as of decent or proper quality?
The book presents a case study of retailer-led food governance in the UK to examine how different 'quality logics' actually collide in the competitive world of food consumption and production. It argues that concerns around food safety were provoked by the emergence of a new food aesthetic based on 'relationalism' and 'embeddedness'. The book also argues that the study of the arguments and discourses deployed to criticise or otherwise qualify consumption is important to the political morality of consumption.
Item Description:Description based upon print version of record.
Physical Description:1 online resource (214 pages) : file(s).
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
ISBN:9781526137609
1526137607
9781847791054
1847791050
1280719605
9781280719608
9786610719600
6610719608