By addressing the issue of food and eating in Britain today this collection considers the ways in which food habits are changing and shows how social and personal identities and perceptions of health risk influence people's food choices.

The articles explore, among other issues:
• the family meal
• wedding cakes
• nostalgia and the invention of tradition
• the rise of vegetarianism
• the recent BSE crisis
• the `creolization' of British food eating out
• creation of individual identity through lifestyle.

The contributors include Hanna Bradby, Simon Charsley, Allison James, Anne Keane, Lydia Martens and Alan Warde.

Table of Contents:

1: Approaches to the study of food, health and identity; 2: Family meals ? a thing of the past?; 3: Marriages, weddings and their cakes; 4: How British is British food?; 5: Fast food/spoiled identity; 6: ?Bacon sandwiches got the better of me'; 7: Urban pleasure?; 8: ?We never eat like this at home'; 9: Too hard to swallow?; 10: Being told what to eat; 11: Health, eating and heart attacks; 12: Scaremonger or scapegoat?; 13: Declining meat

Sociology in general, methodology, handbooks

Medicine in general

Nutrition, dietetics

International dishes

Health dishes

Cultural studies

Further reading in the field of sociology

Ethnography in general

Sociology in general, methodology, handbooks (charity campaign)

Medicine in general (charity campaign)

Nutrition, dietetics (charity campaign)

International dishes (charity campaign)

Health dishes (charity campaign)

Cultural studies (charity campaign)

Further reading in the field of sociology (charity campaign)

Ethnography in general (charity campaign)

Food, Health and Identity

By addressing the issue of food and eating in Britain today, this book considers the way in which our food habits are changing, and shows how social and personal identities and perceptions of health and risk influence choices.