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The Social Significance of Dining Out : A Study of Continuity and Change.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (297 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781526134769
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Social Significance of Dining OutDDC classification:
  • 394.120942
LOC classification:
  • TX737 .W373 2020
Online resources:
Contents:
Front matter -- Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Figures -- 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.
Summary: 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.
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Front matter -- Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Figures -- 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.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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