Food cults how fads, dogma, and doctrine influence diet / edited by Kima Cargill.

Other author Cargill, Kima.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2016]
Description1 online resource.
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SeriesRowman & littlefield studies in food and gastronomy
Contents The Psychology of Food Cults / Kima Cargill -- The Allure Of Food Cults : Balancing Pseudoscience And Healthy Skepticism / Leighann R. Chaffee and Corey L. Cook -- Food Practices In Early Christianity / Paul A. Brazinski -- Longevity Diets in Historical Perspective / Ken Albala -- Juicing : Language, Ritual, And Placebo Sociality In A Community Of Extreme Eaters / Samuel Veissière and Liona Gibbs-Bravo -- Contemporary Superfood Cults : Nutritionism, Neoliberalism and Gender / Tina Sikka -- Gluttons Galore : A Rising Faction in Food Discourses and Dining Experiences / Carlnita Greene -- Caving In : The Appeal of the Paleo Diet in the Wake of 9/11 / Lenore Bell -- "Of Bananas And Cavemen" : Unlikely Similarities Between Two Online Food Communities / Amanda Maxfield and Andrea Rissing -- Eschew Your Food : Foodies, Healthism And The Elective Restrictive Diet / Michele Scott -- Breaking Bread : The Clashing Cults of Sourdough and Gluten-Free / L. Sasha Gora -- The Gluten-Free Cult : A World Without Wheat / Jennifer Martin -- Erasure of Indigenous Food Memories and (Re-)Imaginations / Preety Gadhoke and Barrett P. Brenton -- "Herb Is For The Healing Of The Nation!" : Marijuana As A Consumable Vegetable Among Ghetto Muslim Youth Of Maamobi In Accra, Ghana / De-Valera Botchway and Charles Prempeh -- What Makes A Good Mother? : Mother's Conceptions Of Good Food / Liora Gvion & Irit Sharir.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Issued in other formPrint version: Food cults Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2016] 9781442251311
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LCCN 2016046779
ISBN9781442251328 (epub)