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Changing Chicken: Chooks, Cooks and Culinary Culture
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Paperback. Chicken meat is one of Australia's most popular and affordable foods, but it was not ever thus. The Changing Chicken provides a unique view of food systems and culture through an examination of our changing attitudes to chicken meat. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MBF; TDCT; WB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 162 x 16. Weight in Grams: 316.
Chicken meat is one of Australia's most popular and affordable foods, but it was not ever thus. The Changing Chicken provides a unique view of food systems and culture through an examination of our changing attitudes to chicken meat. Colourful descriptions are provided of the activities conducted in hatcheries, on chicken farms, in processing plants, in supermarket delicatessens and in household kitchens. Power, in its many forms, provides the unifying thread, and the concepts of authority and the cultural economy are used to explain how food systems are evolving. The humble table chicken challenges dominant assumptions about how foods become ... Read more
Chicken meat is one of Australia's most popular and affordable foods, but it was not ever thus. The Changing Chicken provides a unique view of food systems and culture through an examination of our changing attitudes to chicken meat. Colourful descriptions are provided of the activities conducted in hatcheries, on chicken farms, in processing plants, in supermarket delicatessens and in household kitchens. Power, in its many forms, provides the unifying thread, and the concepts of authority and the cultural economy are used to explain how food systems are evolving. The humble table chicken challenges dominant assumptions about how foods become ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of New South Wales Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Sydney, Australia
ISBN
9780868404776
SKU
V9780868404776
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1
About Unknown
Jane Dixon is currently Fellow at the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health at the Australian National University. She was co-editor of The Social Origins of Health and Well-being (Cup, 2001), and is a member of the Australasian Agri-Food Research Network and the Food and Nutrition Special Interest Group of the Public Health Association of Australia.
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