An outstanding and thoughtfully organized collection that addresses many core issues and debates in the area of food and culture. Acknowledgements, Foundations, The Problem of Changing Food Habits, The Culinary Triangle, Deciphering a Meal, The Abominable Pig, The Nourishing Arts, Time and Sugar and Sweetness, Anorexia Nervosa and Its Differential Diagnosis, Gender and Consumption, The Appetite as Voice, Anorexia Nervosa: Psychopathology as the Crystallization of Culture, Feeding Hard Bodies: Food and Masculinities in Men's Fitness Magazines, Conflict and Deference, Feeding Lesbigay Families, Food and Identity Politics, Let's Cook Thai: Recipes for Colonialism, Slow Food and the Politics of Pork Fat: Italian Food and European Identity, The Rwa and the Rotten: Punk Cuisine, Political Economy of Food: Transformation and Marginalization, The Chain Never Stops, The Politics of Breastfeeding: An Advocacy Update, The Political Economy of Obesity: The Fat Pay All, The Political Economy of Food Aid in an Era of Agricultural Biotechnology, Index.