Fast food/slow food : the cultural economy of the global food system / edited by Richard Wilk.

Cultural economy of the global food system

Lanham, MD : Altamira Press, [2006], ©2006.

vi, 268 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.

A collection of papers presented at a conference.

pt. 1. Introduction. -- Food at moderate speeds / Sidney Mintz -- From wild weeds to artisanal cheese / Richard Wilk -- pt. 2. Whole food economies: breaking down dichotomies. -- Building lives wtih food: production, circulation, and consumption of food in Yap / James A. Egan, Michael L. Burton, and Karen L. Nero -- Food for the Malian middle class: an invisible cuisine / Dolores Koenig -- Taco Bell, Maseca, and slow food: a postmodern apocalypse for Mexico's peasant cuisine? / Jeffrey M. Pilcher -- From hunger foods to heritage foods: challenges to food localization in Lao PDR / Penny Van Esterik -- Tasting the worlds of yesterday and today: culinary tourism and nostalgia foods in the post-Soviet Russia / Melissa L. Caldwell -- pt. 3. The contradictions of industrial food. -- Kaiten-zushi and konbini Japanese food culture in the age of mechanical reproduction / Theodore C. Bestor -- Rice ball rivalries: Japanese convenience stores and the appetite of late capitalism / Gavin Hamilton Whitelaw --Global tastes, local contexts: an ethnographic account of fast food expression in San Fernando City, the Philippines / Ty Matejowsky -- pt. 4. Transforming markets and reconnecting with consumers. -- From the bottom up: the global expansion of Chinese vegetable trade for New York City markets / Valerie Imbruce -- The role of ideology in New Mexico's CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) organizations: conflicting visions between growers and members / Lois Stanford -- Artisanal cheese and economies of sentiment in New England / Heather Paxson -- Fast and slow food in the fast lane: automobility and the Australian diet / Cathy Banwell, Jane Dixon, Sarah Hinde, and Heather McIntyre -- Just Java: roasting fair trade coffee / Sarah Lyon.

Includes bibliographical references and index.