Amidst growing concern about both nutrition and food safety, anxiety about a loss of everyday cooking skills is a … incidence of indigenous food-borne disease in the UK has led to the emergence of an understanding of consumer behaviour, within … the food industry and among food scientists, based on assumptions about consumer \'ignorance\' and poor food hygiene …

health crisis caused by modern Western food habits and lifestyle. The low-carbohydrate literature demonstrates a powerful … a putative \'modern Western diet\'. The binary opposition set up between modern Western food habits and a traditional … romantic \'nutritional nostalgia\' (Beardsworth 2002) of the diet books, and dieters\' own food practices. …

Research into the politics of food cannot assume universal acceptance of what is meant by the term \'food\' which has … point. Food has variously been conceptualised as process and as commodity, nature or culture. None of these tropes are value … environmental philosophies, an alternative trope, that of food-as-death, can be developed, which challenges other, more dominant …

commodity markets is now more compelling than ever, in the context of the renewed increase in food prices. However, as in much … other financial regulation, the devil is in the detail. This paper considers recent patterns in global food markets and …

The three articles in this invited paper session examine value-added strategies related to agriculture and food at the … problem of using classical economic theory to interpret differentiated agriculture and food products as opposed to …