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Meals Matter: A Radical Economics Through Gastronomy
ISBN: 9780231551601
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Columbia University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Food habits -- Economic aspects; Food habits -- Social aspects;

In Meals Matter , Michael Symons returns economics to its roots in the distribution of food and the labor required. Setting the table with vivid descriptions of conviviality, he offers a gastronomic rebuttal to the narrow worldview of mainstream economics.

Michael Symons (P.h.D., Flinders University of South Australia) is a journalist, former restauranteur and independent scholar. He has written One Continuous Picnic: A History of Eating in Australia (Duck Press, 1982, Penguin, 1984) and The Pudding that Took a Thousand Cooks (Viking Australia, 1998). He has also published articles in Food & Foodways; Food, Culture and Society ; and Journal of Historical Sociology .Michael Symons is the author of One Continuous Picnic: A Gastronomic History of Australia (anniversary edition, 2007) and A History of Cooks and Cooking (2000), among other works. He is also a former journalist and restaurateur.