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Food Studies
A Hands-On Guide
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Traditional food studies textbooks tend to emphasize theoretical concepts and text-based approaches. Yet food is sensory, tactile, and experiential. Food Studies: A Hands-on Guide is the first book to provide a practical introduction to food studies. Offering a unique, innovative approach to learning and teaching, Willa Zhen presents creative hands-on activities that can easily be done in a traditional classroom - without the need for a student kitchen. Major theories and key concepts in food studies are covered in an engaging, tangible way, alongside topics such as food production, consumption, technology, identity and culture, and globalization.
A fantastic resource for supporting student engagement and learning, the book features:
- practical activities, such as grinding grains to learn about the importance of food technology; working with restaurant menus to understand changes in food trends, tastes, and ingredients; writing food poetry; and many more
- pedagogical features such as learning objectives, discussion questions, suggested readings, and a glossary
- a companion website offering lesson plans, worksheets, and links to additional resources, found here: https://onlineresources.bloomsbury.com/cw/food-studies/.
This is the perfect introduction for students of food studies, anthropology of food, food geography, food hospitality, sociology of food, food history, and gastronomy.
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What Reviewers Are Saying
This text by Zhen (Culinary Institute of America) lives up to its goal of "serv[ing] as a broad-ranging interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary introduction to the field of Food Studies" (p. 181) ... [The] guide is accessible to all readers interested in food, from its production to its consumption, over time and across different cultures and traditions ... Summing Up: Essential. All levels. * CHOICE * Willa Zhen's book is fun! This introductory text to food studies encourages 'hand-on' learning of concepts from commensality to food systems with the help of scavenger hunts, seed bombs, growing sprouts, and more. Do the learning and enjoy. -- Anna C. Bellows, Syracuse University, USA The field needs an introductory survey textbook like this. The hands-on activities address an important component missing from most of the work in this field that values text over material. -- Jonathan Deutsch, Drexel University, USA This book fills a niche in the growing food studies realm. The pedagogical features are wonderful and likely to stimulate a lot of discussion. -- John T. Lang, Occidental College, USA A simple and effective introduction to food studies, and a great resource for structuring class sessions in a way that encourages student engagement. * Charlotte Maberly, Queen Margaret University, UK *