In this Book
- Eating Together: Food, Friendship and Inequality
- Book
- 2013
- Published by: University of Illinois Press
summary
An insightful map of the landscape of social meals, Eating Together: Food, Friendship, and Inequality argues that the ways in which Americans eat together play a central role in social life in the United States. Delving into a wide range of research, Alice P. Julier analyzes etiquette and entertaining books from the past century and conducts interviews and observations of dozens of hosts and guests at dinner parties, potlucks, and buffets. She finds that when people invite friends, neighbors, or family members to share meals within their households, social inequalities involving race, economics, and gender reveal themselves in interesting ways: relationships are defined, boundaries of intimacy or distance are set, and people find themselves either excluded or included.
Table of Contents

- Acknowledgments
- pp. vii-13
- 1. Feeding Friends and Others
- pp. 1-21
- 2. From Formality to Comfort
- pp. 22-53
- 3. Dinner Parties in America
- pp. 54-103
- 4. Sweetening the Pot
- pp. 104-145
- 5. Potlucks
- pp. 146-184
- 6. Artfulness, Solidarity, and Intimacy
- pp. 185-208
- Bibliography
- pp. 219-232
Additional Information
ISBN
9780252094880
Related ISBN(s)
9780252037634, 9780252079184
MARC Record
OCLC
847950396
Pages
256
Launched on MUSE
2013-08-13
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2013