Anne Murcott is Honorary Professorial Research Associate, Food Studies Centre, Department of Anthropology, SOAS University of London, Professor Emerita, London South Bank University and Honorary Professor, School of Sociology & Social Policy, University of Nottingham. Among her books is The Sociology of Food: Eating, Diet and Culture (with Stephen Mennell and Anneke van Otterloo). In 2009 she received an honorary doctorate from the University of Uppsala.

Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: Sociology, Food and Eating
2. Food at Home: 'The Family Meal in Decline?'
3. Food in Public: 'We are all Eating Out Nowadays'
4. Food in Institutions: 'Why are Hospital Meals Inadequate,
School Lunches Meagre and Prison Diets Unappetizing?'
5. Food Preparation Competence: 'Cooking Skills are Being Lost
Because People Rely on Convenience Foods'
6. Food Packaging: 'The Problem is that Food is OverPackaged'
7. Food and Ethnicity, Authenticity and Identity: 'Ethnic Foods are
Everywhere'
8. Food, Nutrition and Hygiene: 'Why don't People Just Follow
Professional Advice?'
9. Food Waste: 'How does so much Perfectly Edible Food Get
Thrown Away?'
10. Food Poverty: 'Poor People should Eat Porridge not Cocoa
Pops, it's Far Cheaper'
11. Food and Power: Politics, the Food System and 'Consumer Choice'
12. Conclusion: Sociology, Food and Eating
Notes
References
Index