Abstract
Jon Stobart persuasively shows that daily purchasing habits, procurement techniques, and modern retailing practices date as far back as long seventeenth century in Sugar & Spice: Grocers and Groceries in Provincial England.
Highlights
Eggo waffles, which was of nearly hyperbolic concern to consumers at the time, to demonstrate that despite industrial food’s vulnerabilities, excesses, and problems, it “is still very much a part of American eating and American culture” (67)
In her study of eating out, she argues that a globalized world so blurs the distinctions between private and public that the meaning of eating out becomes “manifestly variable” and “perceptibly unstable” (113)
“In the twenty-first century, more than ever, dining out will be about producing difference” in order to ensure the survival of restaurants within a competitive culinary environment (125)
Summary
Eggo waffles, which was of nearly hyperbolic concern to consumers at the time, to demonstrate that despite industrial food’s vulnerabilities, excesses, and problems, it “is still very much a part of American eating and American culture” (67). In her study of eating out, she argues that a globalized world so blurs the distinctions between private and public that the meaning of eating out becomes “manifestly variable” and “perceptibly unstable” (113).
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