This textbook equips students with the ability to analyze and think critically about
contemporary food topics. A thorough introduction to the sociology of food and eating, the …

This study examines the role of time scarcity, cooking skills, meal preparation confidence,
physical and mental effort for cooking, availability of cooking resources, familiarity and …

From remote antiquity to contemporary contexts, food and the 'stuff'of food remains central to
people's daily experiences as well as their sense and expression of identity. This volume …

The consumption of yogurt in Western countries has risen for over a century, first slowly, then
more rapidly. The purpose of the present study was to investigate this prolonged phase of …

The prevalence of overweight children in the United States has almost doubled from 17% to
32% in the past two decades. Children in the United States are overweight, and …

This paper focuses on the hay box, an insulation cooker that found its way to the
Netherlands at the end of the nineteenth century. Over the course of the last century the …

In the Netherlands, the peak in consumption of commercial canned foods came after the
World War II. Around 1 per cent of all fruit and 1 per cent of all vegetables consumed by the …