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FOOD, SEX, AND THE HUNGER FOR MEANING Iggers, Jeremy: THE GARDEN OF EATING: FOOD, SEX, AND THE HUNGER FOR MEANING New York: Basic Books, 1996. First edition. >From Publishers Weekly According to Iggers, Americans are eating more but enjoying it less, racked with guilt over environmental destruction and animal welfare and consumed by anxieties over body image and weight. In an entertaining, occasionally provocative look at our eating habits, this Minneapolis-St. Paul Tribune ethics columnist/restaurant reviewer samples the "postmodern food world," where marketing messages surrounding the food we eat meld with the eating experience. He finds that, in our fragmented, mobile, TV-oriented society, in which satisfactory interpersonal relationships are rare, we invest food with tremendous emotional power and symbolic significance. Further, we eroticize food, even as eating, like sex, is becoming an increasingly solitary pursuit. To overcome food anxieties and eating disorders, Iggers urges us to eat mindfully and ethically, for instance by saying grace, by making food a tool of community or by choosing organic and vegetarian foods. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. Near Fine with Near Fine jacket. Remainder mark on bottom edges. Corners lightly bumped. Rear panel of dust jacket soiled. starting bid: $4.00 http://tinyurl.com/x8c1 -- Don and Meg Jernigan The Ink Company 5930 Dillingham Avenue Shreveport, LA 71106 Phone: 318-773-2153 FAX: 253-369-5197 http://www.inkcobooks.com ________________________
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