Devoured : from chicken wings to kale smoothies-- how what we eat defines who we are / Sophie Egan.
Title:
Devoured : from chicken wings to kale smoothies-- how what we eat defines who we are / Sophie Egan.
Author:
Egan, Sophie, author.
ISBN:
9780062390981
9780062390998
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Physical Description:
ix, 403 pages ; 24 cm
Contents:
Muddle of the modern mean -- Food at work -- Having it our way -- Selling absence -- Secular church -- Diet evangelism -- Democratization of wine -- Age of stunt foods -- Cheesepocalypse -- Story of spaghetti -- What to make of all this.
Abstract:
A look at the deeper meaning behind our food choices: from the prioritization of convenience over health to the ways food at work affects our happiness; from the American obsession with "having it our way" at Starbucks, Chipotle and other chains that individualize the eating experience to the fascinating dynamic between highbrow food culture--artisan this and small-batch that--and the lowbrow, such as Taco Bell's sale of 100 million Doritos Locos Tacos in just ten weeks.
