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As Roland Barthes has pointed out, food habits form a communication system which, in combination with other cultural phenomena, can reflect communities, societies, even national characteristics. In other words, although eating is a biological necessity, food habits are also cultural phenomena embedded in, and determined by, a given society.
Based on this premise, the lecture course will investigate American Food Habits and address their various interrelationships with cultural, literary, and psychological aspects. Topics will include: ethnic food, fast food, obesity, coffee culture, gender and food, food writing etc.
Bibliography:McIntosh, Elaine N. American Food Habits in Historical Perspective. Westport, CN: Praeger, 1995.Smith, Andrew F. (ed.). The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America. Oxford: OUP, 2005.
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