Food Studies: A Hands-On Guide

By Willa Zhen

Book Overview

A 2019 Choice Outstanding Academic Title

Traditional food studies textbooks tend to emphasize theoretical concepts and text-based approaches. Yet food is sensory, tactile, and experiential. Food Studies: A Hands-on Guide is the first book to provide a practical introduction to food studies. Offering a unique, innovative approach to learning and teaching, Willa Zhen presents creative hands-on activities that can easily be done in a traditional classroom - without the need for a student kitchen. Major theories and key concepts in food studies are covered in an engaging, tangible way, alongside topics such as food production, consumption, technology, identity and culture, and globalization.

A fantastic resource for supporting student engagement and learning, the book features:

- practical activities, such as grinding grains to learn about the importance of food technology; working with restaurant menus to understand changes in food trends, tastes, and ingredients; writing food poetry; and many more
- pedagogical features such as learning objectives, discussion questions, suggested readings, and a glossary
- a companion website offering lesson plans, worksheets, and links to additional resources, found here: https: //onlineresources.bloomsbury.com/cw/food-studies/.

This is the perfect introduction for students of food studies, anthropology of food, food geography, food hospitality, sociology of food, food history, and gastronomy.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474298672
• ISBN13: 9781474298674
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"