Food: Second Edition - John Coveney
Feb 11, 2025•3 hr 43 min
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Title: Food: Second Edition
Author: John Coveney
Narrator: Grant Cartwright
Format: Unabridged
Length: 3:42:44
Language: English
Release date: 02-11-2025
Publisher: Tantor Media
Genres: Non-Fiction, Health & Wellness, Diet & Nutrition, Social Science
Summary:
In Food, John Coveney examines 'food as . . . ' identity, politics, industry, regulation, the environment, justice, and gastronomy. He explores how food helps us understand what it means to be human. The centrality of food in life, and the importance of food as life, is undeniable. As a source of biological substrates, personal pleasure, and political power, food is and has been an enduring requirement of human biological, social, and cultural existence. Interest in food has increased across the academic, public, and popular spheres, fueled by popular media's constant play on the role of food and body size, and food and cooking, as a mass spectacle for TV audiences. Through food, we construct our social identities, our families and communities. However, Coveney also highlights the tensions between the industrialization of food, the environment, and the iniquitous distribution of food. He also considers how the food industries, on which most of us must rely, have also had direct effects on our bodies through diet, and the development of illness and diseases. This accessible primer is for students and general listeners alike, indeed, for anyone with an interest in food. It questions the idea that food is merely something inert on the plate. Instead, it shows how influential, symbolic, powerful, and transformative food has come to be.
https://hotaudiobook.com/free
Title: Food: Second Edition
Author: John Coveney
Narrator: Grant Cartwright
Format: Unabridged
Length: 3:42:44
Language: English
Release date: 02-11-2025
Publisher: Tantor Media
Genres: Non-Fiction, Health & Wellness, Diet & Nutrition, Social Science
Summary:
In Food, John Coveney examines 'food as . . . ' identity, politics, industry, regulation, the environment, justice, and gastronomy. He explores how food helps us understand what it means to be human. The centrality of food in life, and the importance of food as life, is undeniable. As a source of biological substrates, personal pleasure, and political power, food is and has been an enduring requirement of human biological, social, and cultural existence. Interest in food has increased across the academic, public, and popular spheres, fueled by popular media's constant play on the role of food and body size, and food and cooking, as a mass spectacle for TV audiences. Through food, we construct our social identities, our families and communities. However, Coveney also highlights the tensions between the industrialization of food, the environment, and the iniquitous distribution of food. He also considers how the food industries, on which most of us must rely, have also had direct effects on our bodies through diet, and the development of illness and diseases. This accessible primer is for students and general listeners alike, indeed, for anyone with an interest in food. It questions the idea that food is merely something inert on the plate. Instead, it shows how influential, symbolic, powerful, and transformative food has come to be.
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