Reframing Convenience Food

This book questions the simplistic view that convenience food is unhealthy and environmentally unsustainable. By exploring how various types of convenience food have become embedded in consumers’ lives, it considers what lessons can be learnt from the commercial success of convenience food for those...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Jackson, Peter, Brembeck, Helene (Author), Everts, Jonathan (Author), Fuentes, Maria (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Palgrave Macmillan 2018, 2018
Edition:1st ed. 2018
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. A Short History of Convenience Food
  • 3. Convenience Food as a Contested Category
  • 4. The Normalization of Convenience Food
  • 5. The Temporalities of Convenience Food
  • 6. The Spatialities of Convenience Food
  • 7. The Moralization of Convenience Food
  • 8. Cooking and Convenience
  • 9. Convenience, Health and Sustainability
  • 10. Conclusions.