The cultural politics of food and eating : a reader / edited by James L. Watson and Melissa L. Caldwell.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / James L. Watson and Melissa L. Caldwell -- Part I. Food and globalization -- How sushi went Global / Theodore C. Bestor -- French beans for the masses: a modern historical geography of food in Burkina Faso / Walter L. Goldfrank -- Fresh demand: the consumption of Chilean produce in the United States / Walter Goldfrank -- Coca-Cola: a black sweet drink from Trinidad / Daniel Miller -- China's Big Mac attack / James L. Watson -- Of hamburger and social space: consuming McDonald's in Beijing / Yunxiang Yan -- Part II. Gentrification, Yuppification, and Domesticating Tastes. Children's food and Islamic dietary restrictions in Xi'an / Maris Boyd Gillette -- The rise of Yuppie Coffees and the reimagination of class in the United States / William Roseberry -- Crafting Grand Cru chocolates in contemporary France / Susan J. Terrio -- Globalized childhood? Kentucky Fried Chicken in Beijing / Eriberto P. Lozada, Jr. -- Domesticating the French fry: McDonald's and consumerism in Moscow / Melissa L. Caldwell -- "India Shopping": Indian grocery stores and transnational configurations of belonging / Purnima Mankekar -- Part III. The political economy of food. Food and the counterculture: a story of bread and politics / Warren Belasco -- Industrial Tortillas and folkloric Pepsi: the Nutritional consequences of hybrid cuisines in Mexico / Jeffrey M. Pilcher -- Food, hunger, and the State / Susan Brownell -- The bakers of Bernburg and the logics of communism and capitalism / Hans Buechler and Juidith-Maria Buechler -- The global food fight / Robert Paarlberg -- Half-lives and healthy bodies: discourses on "Contaminated" food and healing in post-Chernobyl Ukraine / Sarah Drue Phillips -- Mad cow mysteries / Harriet Ritvo.