Food, Senses and the City

ISBN-13: 9780367458232 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 268 str.

Ferne Edwards; Roos Gerritsen; Grit Wesser

Opis

This work explores diverse cultural understandings of food practices in cities through the senses, drawing on case studies in North and South America, Asia and Europe.

Spis treści

1. The ‘food, senses, and the city’ nexus  PART I The city and its other  2. Digging into soil, the senses, and society in Utrecht  3. Food activism and sensuous human activity in Cagliari, Italy  4. Humming along: heightening the senses between urban honeybees and humans  5. Sensing vernacular Chennai, not Madras – a photo-essay  PART II Past in the present: memory and food  6. The sensorial life of amba: taste, smell, and culinary nostalgia for Iraqi Jews in London and Israel  7. Thuringian festive cakes: women’s labour of love and the taste of Heimat  8. The taste of home: migrant foodscapes in marketplaces in Shantou, China  9. Sourcing, sensing, and sharing Bengali cuisine on the Gold Coast  10. Transmitting traditions: digital food haunts of Nepalis in the UK PART III Disrupting and re-imagining  11. A taste for tapatío things: changing city, changing palate  12. The foodie flâneur and the periphery of taste in Bucharest’s street food scene  13. Michelin stars and pintxo bars in Donostia: taste, touch, and food tourism in contemporary urban Basque Country  14. Source and supply: situating food and cultural capital in rural–urban interactions in Vietnam  15. Preparing Uchu Jaku: the politics of care in a traditional Andean recipe  16. Future directions for food, senses, and the city