Culinary Taste (Paperback)

Foreword (Leith); Introduction (Sloan); The social construction of taste (Seymour); The postmodern palate: dining out in the individualized era (Sloan); Taste and space: eating out in the city today (Bell); Chic cuisine: the impact of fashion on food (Finkelstein); The shock of the new: a sociology of nouvelle cuisine (Wood); Contemporary lifestyles: the case of wine (Demossier); Shaping culinary taste: the influence of commercial operators(Brookes); Gender and culinary taste (Wood); Developing a taste for health (Fouille); My most memorable meal ever! Hospitality as an emotional experience (Lashley, Morrison, Randall); Index