Publisher Description

The most famous of food sayings must be Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin's fourth aphorism from Physiologie du Goût: 'Dis-moi ce que tu manges, je te dirai ce que tu es'. Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are. Brillat-Savarin's implication is that food communicates, but his command is to communicate about food.

Author Biography

Professor Mark McWilliams is Chair of the English Department at the United States Naval Academy, USA.

Table of Contents

Foreword Mark McWilliams PLENARY PAPERS Fava Beans and B

Competing Titles

Food as Communication, Communication as Food Janet Cramer 9781433109621 39.00 Peter Lang Publishing 01/31/2011 1000 Food Nations: Selling Taste in Consumer Societies Warren Belasco 9780415930772 41.95 Hagley Persepctives 10/14/2001 500 Consider the Fork Bee Wilson 9780465056970 16.95 Basic Books 10/08/2013 2000

Description for Sales People

This volume explains the unexpected resilience of the physical cookbook in an iPad age and the explosion in televised food entertainment (the many iterations of MasterChef). But papers also explored food as an area of control and resistance in totalitarian societies; struggles between activists, corporations and bureaucracies over food labels; the use of food and cookery to explore the past and the exotic; the sounds of eating and selling food; and, as Brillat-Savarin predicted, the role of food in constructing and communicating aspects of individual and collective identity.

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