The social significance of dining out: A study of continuity and change

✍ Scribed by Alan Warde; Jessica Paddock; Jennifer Whillans

Publisher: Manchester University Press
Year: 2020
Tongue: English
Leaves: 297
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

The book reports on a major research project on changes in dining out in three cities in England. It compares systematically popular practice in 1995 and 2015. Differences in taste and behaviour surrounding eating in restaurants and as guests of friends are put in the context of wider social and cultural trends.

✦ Table of Contents

Front matter
Contents
List of figures
List of tables
Notes on authors
Acknowledgements
Part I: Introduction
Dining out
Method and context
Part II: Familiarisation
Patterns of dining out
The meaning of eating out
Part III: Informalisation
Food at home
Domestic hospitality
Restaurant performances
Organising eating
Part IV: Diversification
Regard for variety
Aesthetics, enthusiasm and culinary omnivorousness
Landscape of variety
Part V: Continuity and change
The practice of eating out
Explaining continuity and change
Methodological appendix
References
Index

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