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Eat, Kill, … Love? Courtship, Cannibalism, and Consumption in Hannibal

Michael Fuchs

Michael Fuchs

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Michael Phillips

Michael Phillips

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What’s Eating You? : Food and Horror on Screen

Bloomsbury Academic, 2017

Book chapter

...In the preface to their seminal volume Foodways and Eating Habits (1983), Michael Owen Jones, Bruce B. Giuliano, and Roberta Krell stress that food and the rituals of eating reflect the “perceptions of the natural and social environment...

Introduction

Ken Albala

Ken Albala is Professor of History at the University of the Pacific and chair of the Food Studies MA program in San Francisco. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Lisa Cooperman

Lisa Cooperman

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Food and Architecture : At the Table

Bloomsbury Academic, 2016

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...The most familiar and enduring example comparing architecture and cuisine hails from the nineteenth century and the magnificent edible fantasies of Marie-Antonin Carême, king of chefs and chef of kings. Carême is credited with having said...

Coprophagia as Class and Consumerism in the Human Centipede Films

Mark Henderson

Mark Henderson

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What’s Eating You? : Food and Horror on Screen

Bloomsbury Academic, 2017

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...Along with its two sequels, the 2009 Tom Six film The Human Centipede (First Sequence) has gained widespread notoriety as a viscerally repulsive film of the body-horror subgenre. It has even been widely parodied, from the 2011 South Park...

Gourmet

Peter Jackson

Peter Jackson is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Sheffield, UK Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Food Words : Essays in Culinary Culture

Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

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...Originally referring to the refined taste of French wine brokers and later extended to other aspects of haute cuisine, the word “gourmet” often now has a somewhat pejorative connotation, denoting a snobbish obsession with French cuisine...

The Success of a Metaphor

Luca Vercelloni

Luca Vercelloni is the CEO and Founder of Brandvoyant, Italy. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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The Invention of Taste : A Cultural Account of Desire, Delight and Disgust in Fashion, Food and Art

Bloomsbury Academic, 2016

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...The figurative use of the term “taste” to refer to the human faculty for discerning between what is beautiful and what is ugly is a relatively recent cultural acquisition. It implies being in possession of measure, refinement and skill (in...

Celebrity Chefs

Nick Piper

Nick Piper

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Food Words : Essays in Culinary Culture

Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

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...Cooking © Angela Meah. Celebrity chefs are reported to “have attained pop star status on a par with Hollywood actors, and their numbers are growing at the same...

Work

Peter Jackson

Peter Jackson is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Sheffield, UK Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Food Words : Essays in Culinary Culture

Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

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...In much of the recent food studies literature an emphasis on identity, meaning, and consumption has led to a comparative neglect of the sheer hard work involved in growing, making, selling, and preparing food. While there are some excellent...

Cannibalism as Cultural Critique: Peter Greenaway’s The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover and Thatcherism

Thomas Prasch

Thomas Prasch

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What’s Eating You? : Food and Horror on Screen

Bloomsbury Academic, 2017

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...Rampaging through the kitchen—terrorizing staff as he tosses about pots, pans, and whatever else comes in his way as he searches for the trysting spot of his wife Georgina (Helen Mirren) and her bookish lover Michael (Alan Howard)—Albert...

Protein–Energy Malnutrition

J. D. L. Hansen

J. D. L. Hansen

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The Cambridge World History of Food

© Cambridge University Press, 2000

Encyclopedia entry

...Protein–energy malnutrition (PEM) is the current term for a group of nutritional diseases related to dietary protein and energy (calorie) intake. These diseases are most frequently seen in infants and young children in developing countries...

Pigeons

Richard F. Johnston

Richard F. Johnston

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The Cambridge World History of Food

© Cambridge University Press, 2000

Encyclopedia entry

...Because humans seem to have had omnivorous ancestors, birds were probably a significant item in the human diet well before historic time. Many kinds of birds can be caught readily, and young adults are generally considered...