The classic book that helped to define and legitimize the field of food and culture studies is now available, with major revisions, in a specially affordable "e-book version" (978-0-203-07975-1). The "third edition" includes 40 "original essays" and reprints of previously published classics under 5 Sections: FOUNDATIONS, HEGEMONY AND DIFFERENCE, CONSUMPTION AND EMBODIMENT, FOOD AND GLOBALIZATION, and CHALLENGING, CONTESTING, AND TRANSFORMING THE FOOD SYSTEM. 17 of the 40 articles included are either, new to this edition, rewritten by their original authors, or edited by Counihan and van Esterik. A bank of "test items "applicable to each article in the book is available to instructors interested in selecting this edition for course use. Simply send an e.mail to the publisher at companionaccess@informa.com."

Foreword from The gastronomical me / M.F.K. Fisher -- Why food? Why culture? Why now?: introduction to the third edition / Carole Counihan and Penny Van Esterik -- [I.] Foundations : Why do we overeat? / Margaret Mead -- Toward a psychosociology of contemporary food consumption / Roland Barthes -- Distinction: a social critique of the judgement of taste / Pierre Bourdieu -- The culinary triangle / Claude Lévi-Strauss -- The abominations of Leviticus / Mary Douglas -- The abominable pig / Marvin Harris -- Industrial food: towards the development of a world cuisine / Jack Goody -- Time, sugar, and sweetness / Sidney W. Mintz -- [II.] Hegemony and difference: race, glass, and gender : More than just the "big piece of chicken': the power of race, class, and food in American consciousness / Psyche Williams-Forson -- The overcooked and underdone: masculinities in Japanese food programming / T.J.M. Holden -- Domestic divo? Televised treatments of masculinity, femininity, and food / Rebecca Swenson -- Japanese mothers and obentos: the lunch-box as ideological state apparatus / Anne Allison -- Mexicanas' food voice and differential consciousness in the San Luis Valley of Colorado / Carole Counihan -- Feeding lesbigay families / Christopher Carrington -- Thinking race through corporeal feminist theory: divisions and intimacies at the Minneapolis farmers' market / Rachel Slocum -- The raw and the rotten: punk cuisine / Dylan Clark -- [III.] Consumption and embodiment : Fast, feast, and flesh: the religious significance of food to medieval women / Caroline Walker Bynum -- Not just "a White girl's thing": the changing face of food and body image problems / Susan Bordo -- De-medicalizing anorexia: opening a new dialogue / Richard A. O'Connor -- Feeding hard bodies: food and masculinities in men's fitness magazines / Fabio Parasecoli -- Cooking skills, the senses, and memory: the fate of Practical knowledge / David Sutton -- Not "from scratch": Thai food systems and "public eating" / Gisèle Yasmeen -- Rooting out the causes of disease: why diabetes is so common among desert dwellers / Gary Paul Nabhan -- Between obesity and hunger: the capitalist food industry / Robert Albritton. [IV.] Food and globalization : "As mother made it": the cosmopolitan Indian family, "Authentic" food, and the construction of cultural utopia / Tulasi Srinivas -- "Real Belizean food": building local identity in the transnational Caribbean / Richard Wilk -- Let's cook Thai: recipes for colonialism / Lisa Heldke -- Slow food and the politics of "virtuous globalization" / Alison Leitch -- Taco Bell, Maseca, and slow food: a postmodern apocalypse for Mexico's peasant cuisine? / Jeffrey M. Pilcher -- Food workers as individual agents of culinary globalization: pizza and pizzaioli in Japan / Rossella Ceccarini -- Of hamburger and social space: consuming McDonald's in Beijing Yungxiang Yan -- On the move for food: three women behind the tomato's journey / Deborah Barndt -- [V.] Challenging, contesting, and transforming the food system : The chain never stops / Eric Schlosser -- Fast food/organic food: reflexive tastes and the making of "yuppie chow" / Julie Guthman -- The politics of breastfeeding: an advocacy update / Penny Van Esterik -- The political economy of food aid in an era of agricultural biotechnology / Jennifer Clapp -- The political economy of obesity: the fat pay all / Alice Julier -- Want amid plenty: from hunger to inequality / Janet Poppendieck -- Community food security "for us, by us": the nation of Islam and the Pan African Orthodox Christian Church / Priscilla McCutcheon -- Learning democracy through food justice movements / Charles Z. Levkoe.