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Food, Morals and Meaning

by John Coveney · 1999

Food & Drink · ranked #29 in category

Reviewed by the Book Verdict editorial team

"Food, Morals and Meaning traces our complex relationship with food and eating and our preoccupation with diet, self-discipline and food guilt. Using our current fascination with health and nutrition,

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The verdict

Category
Food & Drink
First published
1999 · 1990s
Author
John Coveney
Standing
Recommended

About Food & Drink

Food writing has become one of the liveliest genres in non-fiction — part memoir, part history, part cultural analysis. The best of it is about far more than what ends up on the plate.

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