The Emergence of National Food

The Emergence of National Food

Author: Atsuko Ichijo

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2019-02-21

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 1350074144

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What do deep fried mars bars, cod, and Bulgarian yoghurt have in common? Each have become symbolic foods with specific connotations, located to a very specific place and country. This book explores the role of food in society as a means of interrogating the concept of the nation-state and its sub-units, and reveals how the nation-state in its various disguises has been and is changing in response to accelerated globalisation. The chapters investigate various stages of national food: its birth, emergence, and decline, and why sometimes no national food emerges. By collecting and analysing a wide range of case studies from countries including Portugal, Mexico, the USA, Bulgaria, Scotland, and Israel, the book illustrates ways in which various social forces work together to shape social and political realities concerning food. The contributors, hailing from anthropology, history, sociology and political science, investigate the significance of specific food cultures, cuisines, dishes, and ingredients, and their association with national identity. In so doing, it becomes clearer how these two things interact, and demonstrates the scope and direction of the current study of food and nationalism.


The Emergence of National Food

The Emergence of National Food

Author: Atsuko Ichijo

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2019-02-21

Total Pages: 219

ISBN-13: 1350074152

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What do deep fried mars bars, cod, and Bulgarian yoghurt have in common? Each have become symbolic foods with specific connotations, located to a very specific place and country. This book explores the role of food in society as a means of interrogating the concept of the nation-state and its sub-units, and reveals how the nation-state in its various disguises has been and is changing in response to accelerated globalisation. The chapters investigate various stages of national food: its birth, emergence, and decline, and why sometimes no national food emerges. By collecting and analysing a wide range of case studies from countries including Portugal, Mexico, the USA, Bulgaria, Scotland, and Israel, the book illustrates ways in which various social forces work together to shape social and political realities concerning food. The contributors, hailing from anthropology, history, sociology and political science, investigate the significance of specific food cultures, cuisines, dishes, and ingredients, and their association with national identity. In so doing, it becomes clearer how these two things interact, and demonstrates the scope and direction of the current study of food and nationalism.


Food, National Identity and Nationalism

Food, National Identity and Nationalism

Author: Atsuko Ichijo

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-01-26

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 113748313X

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Exploring a much neglected area, the relationship between food and nationalism, this book examines a number of case studies at various levels of political analysis to show how useful the food and nationalism axis can be in the study of politics.


Writing Food History

Writing Food History

Author: Kyri W. Claflin

Publisher: Berg

Published: 2013-08-01

Total Pages: 410

ISBN-13: 0857852175

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The vibrant interest in food studies among both academics and amateurs has made food history an exciting field of investigation. Taking stock of three decades of groundbreaking multidisciplinary research, the book examines two broad questions: What has history contributed to the development of food studies? How have other disciplines - sociology, anthropology, literary criticism, science, art history - influenced writing on food history in terms of approach, methodology, controversies, and knowledge of past foodways? Essays by twelve prominent scholars provide a compendium of global and multicultural answers to these questions. The contributors critically assess food history writing in the United States, Africa, Mexico and the Spanish Diaspora, India, the Ottoman Empire, the Far East - China, Japan and Korea - Europe, Jewish communities and the Middle East. Several historical eras are covered: the Ancient World, the Middle Ages, Early Modern Europe and the Modern day. The book is a unique addition to the growing literature on food history. It is required reading for anyone seeking a detailed discussion of food history research in diverse times and places.


Nourishing the Nation

Nourishing the Nation

Author: Venetia Johannes

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2022-02-11

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 1800732031

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In the early twenty-first century, nationalism has seen a surprising resurgence across the Western world. In the Catalan Autonomous Community in northeastern Spain, this resurgence has been most apparent in widespread support for Catalonia’s pro-independence movement, and the popular assertion of Catalan symbols, culture and identity in everyday life. Nourishing the Nation provides an ethnographic account of the everyday experience of national identity in Catalonia, using an essential, everyday object of consumption: food. As a crucial element of Catalan cultural life, a focus on food provides unique insight into the lived realities of Catalan nationalism, and how Catalans experience and express their national identity today.


Regulating Safety of Traditional and Ethnic Foods

Regulating Safety of Traditional and Ethnic Foods

Author: V. Prakash

Publisher: Academic Press

Published: 2015-11-25

Total Pages: 538

ISBN-13: 012800620X

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Regulating Safety of Traditional and Ethnic Foods, a compilation from a team of experts in food safety, nutrition, and regulatory affairs, examines a variety of traditional foods from around the world, their risks and benefits, and how regulatory steps may assist in establishing safe parameters for these foods without reducing their cultural or nutritive value. Many traditional foods provide excellent nutrition from sustainable resources, with some containing nutraceutical properties that make them not only a source of cultural and traditional value, but also valuable options for addressing the growing need for food resources. This book discusses these ideas and concepts in a comprehensive and scientific manner. - Addresses the need for balance in safety regulation and retaining traditional food options - Includes case studies from around the world to provide practical insight and guidance - Presents suggestions for developing appropriate global safety standards


The Untold History of Ramen

The Untold History of Ramen

Author: George Solt

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2014-02-22

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 0520277562

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A rich, salty, and steaming bowl of noodle soup, ramen Offers an account of geopolitics and industrialization in Japan. It traces the meteoric rise of ramen from humble fuel for the working poor to international icon of Japanese culture.


2020 Global food policy report: Building inclusive food systems

2020 Global food policy report: Building inclusive food systems

Author: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst

Published: 2020-04-06

Total Pages: 110

ISBN-13: 089629367X

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Food systems are at a critical juncture—they are evolving quickly to meet growing and changing demand but are not serving everyone’s needs. Building more inclusive food systems can bring a wide range of economic and development benefits to all people, especially the poor and disadvantaged. IFPRI’s 2020 Global Food Policy Report examines the policies and investments and the growing range of tools and technologies that can promote inclusion. Chapters examine the imperative of inclusion, challenges faced by smallholders, youth, women, and conflict-affected people, and the opportunities offered by expanding agrifood value chains and national food system transformations. Critical questions addressed include: How can inclusive food systems help break the intergenerational cycle of poverty and malnutrition? \What can be done to strengthen the midstream of food value chains to improve rural access to jobs, markets, and services? Will Africa’s food systems generate sufficient jobs for the growing youth population? How can women be empowered within food system processes, from household decisions to policymaking? Can refugees and other conflict-affected people be integrated into food systems to help them rebuild their lives? How can national food system transformations contribute to greater dietary diversity, food safety, and food quality for all? Regional sections look at how inclusion can be improved around the world in 2020 and beyond. The report also presents interesting trends revealed by IFPRI’s food policy indicators and datasets.


Food Insecurity and Hunger in the United States

Food Insecurity and Hunger in the United States

Author: National Research Council

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2006-05-02

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13: 0309180368

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The United States is viewed by the world as a country with plenty of food, yet not all households in America are food secure, meaning access at all times to enough food for an active, healthy life. A proportion of the population experiences food insecurity at some time in a given year because of food deprivation and lack of access to food due to economic resource constraints. Still, food insecurity in the United States is not of the same intensity as in some developing countries. Since 1995 the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has annually published statistics on the extent of food insecurity and food insecurity with hunger in U.S. households. These estimates are based on a survey measure developed by the U.S. Food Security Measurement Project, an ongoing collaboration among federal agencies, academic researchers, and private organizations. USDA requested the Committee on National Statistics of the National Academies to convene a panel of experts to undertake a two-year study in two phases to review at this 10-year mark the concepts and methodology for measuring food insecurity and hunger and the uses of the measure. In Phase 2 of the study the panel was to consider in more depth the issues raised in Phase 1 relating to the concepts and methods used to measure food security and make recommendations as appropriate. The Committee on National Statistics appointed a panel of 10 experts to examine the above issues. In order to provide timely guidance to USDA, the panel issued an interim Phase 1 report, Measuring Food Insecurity and Hunger: Phase 1 Report. That report presented the panel's preliminary assessments of the food security concepts and definitions; the appropriateness of identifying hunger as a severe range of food insecurity in such a survey-based measurement method; questions for measuring these concepts; and the appropriateness of a household survey for regularly monitoring food security in the U.S. population. It provided interim guidance for the continued production of the food security estimates. This final report primarily focuses on the Phase 2 charge. The major findings and conclusions based on the panel's review and deliberations are summarized.


National Food Irradiation Research Program

National Food Irradiation Research Program

Author: United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy

Publisher:

Published: 1960

Total Pages: 468

ISBN-13:

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Considers status of DOD food irradiation research programs. Focuses on Army Dept cancellation of plans to construct an Ionizing Radiation Center at Stockton, Calif. b. "Logistic and Economic Feasibility Study on Radiation Sterilization of Foods," Quartermaster and Container Inst for the Armed Forces, June 28, 1955 - Aug. 28, 1956 (p. 475-569). c. "Evaluation of Size of USAIRC and Logistics of Irradiated Meat," Rpt to Quartermaster Radiation Planning Agency, Quartermaster RPD Command, Dec. 11, 1959 (p. 571-627). a. "Food Preservation by Ionizing Energy," Army Dept, Office of the Quartermaster Gen, Dec. 1959 (p. 147-235). Includes following reports. Continuation of hearings on the Army's revised national food irradiation programs, "Medical Nutrition Laboratory: "An assessment of the possible effects to human beings of short-term consumption of food sterilized with gamma rays" p. 771-804; An evaluation in human beings of the acceptability, digestibility, and toxicity of port sterilized by gamma radiation and storied at room temperature" p. 805-822; Short-term human feed in studies of foods sterilized by gamma radiation and stored at room temperature," p. 823-850