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This book examines the connection between food and identity in the Nigerian diaspora community in Belgium. Encounters between people from different cultures do not lead to a simple adaptation of the diet, but usually give rise to some kind of fusion of new and indigenous food habits.The author questions the relationship between what Nigerian migrants in the diaspora eat, their self-perception and how they engage with outsiders. Starting with a historical introduction about the country, this study examines what aspects of the Nigerian food culture is retained and what has changed. This is reflected by the dynamics in the Nigerian homes, especially the gender roles.The new generation of Nigerians, who see Belgium as home, also hang on to a Nigerian diet that remains not only an important part of who they are, but is also used in the creation of cultural boundaries and group identities. However, the influence of the new environment is very present because each diaspora community, wherever and whenever, must adapt. Skills such as language and social norms are indeed necessary to survive in the new environment. Yet, food plays a prominent role: on the one hand, it contributes to the affirmation of Nigerian feelings, and on the other hand, food serves as a means of communication with the host country.
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This book examines the connection between food and identity in the Nigerian diaspora community in Belgium. Encounters between people from different cultures do not lead to a simple adaptation of the diet, but usually give rise to some kind of fusion of new and indigenous food habits.The author questions the relationship between what Nigerian migrants in the diaspora eat, their self-perception and how they engage with outsiders. Starting with a historical introduction about the country, this study examines what aspects of the Nigerian food culture is retained and what has changed. This is reflected by the dynamics in the Nigerian homes, especially the gender roles.The new generation of Nigerians, who see Belgium as home, also hang on to a Nigerian diet that remains not only an important part of who they are, but is also used in the creation of cultural boundaries and group identities. However, the influence of the new environment is very present because each diaspora community, wherever and whenever, must adapt. Skills such as language and social norms are indeed necessary to survive in the new environment. Yet, food plays a prominent role: on the one hand, it contributes to the affirmation of Nigerian feelings, and on the other hand, food serves as a means of communication with the host country.
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La table est en ce moment au centre de toutes les attentions, et de bien des tensions. Gageons que ces pages sauront vous proposer des pistes d'analyse et de réflexion réalistes, mais surtout goûteuses et détendues. Manger, ce n'est pas simplement s'alimenter. Cet acte convoque dans nos assiettes et autour de nos tables un ensemble de règles, de normes, de valeurs et d'interdits avec lesquels nous devons composer nos repas. En ce sens, manger est une action profondément culturelle. Toujours, le symbolique y outrepasse le physiologique. Ces pages proposent une lecture originale du contenu de nos assiettes. Elles interrogent le statut des aliments, les contextes de table, les différentes manières de manger, et les nouvelles tendances en termes de restauration. Une grande part est accordée à la ritualisation et à la théâtralisation de l'alimentation. Alternent dans cet ouvrage des analyses fouillées du buffet à volonté ou des fast-foods, et de courts chapitres non départis d'humour, consacrés aux kebabs, aux « sushis bars », aux plateaux de fruits de mer, au barbecue ou aux lois présidant au règlement de l'addition en fin de soirée. Ce livre permettra à ses lecteurs de passer dans les coulisses de l'alimentation considérée comme système symbolique, afin de comprendre pourquoi et comment nous mangeons au jour le jour ; et de reconsidérer quels sont, en 2013, les risques, mais surtout les rites et les plaisirs alimentaires.
Food habits. --- Eating habits --- Food habits
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Iedereen wil graag gezond oud worden. Maar hoe doe je dat? In Gezond eten, Gezond ouder worden beschrijft Eric De Maerteleire op basis van recent wetenschappelijk onderzoek de invloed van voeding en andere factoren op het verouderingsproces en vertelt hij wat je kunt doen om gezond(er) oud(er) te worden. Je maakt kennis met nieuwe begrippen die een cruciale rol spelen bij veroudering: telomeren, epi genetica, oxidatieve stress, fagocytose, het microbioom... Je krijgt antwoorden op vragen als: Wat is de invloed van levensstijl en erfelijkheid op onze levensverwachting? Kunnen we aandoeningen als kanker, hart- en vaatziekten, diabetes, alzheimer, parkinson, osteoporose en auto-immuun ziekten gunstig beïnvloeden via voeding? Wat zijn de grootste problemen met ons westers voedingspatroon? Wat is de ideale verhouding eiwitten-koolhydraten-vetten in ons menu en waarom zijn vitaminen, mineralen en sporenelementen zo belangrijk? Elk hoofdstuk wordt afgesloten met haalbare, praktische aanbevelingen. Gezond eten, Gezond ouder worden is een bijzonder boeiend boek dat je even stil doet staan bij onze levensstijl en je aanspoort om beter en gezonder te gaan leven, simpelweg door kleine dingen te veranderen.
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First published in 1984, This work is a cross-cultural study of the moral and social meaning of food. It is a collection of articles by Douglas and her colleagues covering the food system of the Oglala Sioux, the food habits of families in rural North Carolina, meal formats in an Italian-American community near Philadelphia. It also includes a grid/group analysis of food consumption.
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Arturo Toscanini hated fish. Ayn Rand despised salads. Britney Spears loathes meatloaf and "all lumpy stuff." Secretary of State John Kerry cannot stand the taste of celery. Sigmund Freud harbored a lifelong dislike specifically for chicken and cauliflower. Virginia Woolf was plagued by food demons. So was Kafka, J.D. Salinger, and Orson Welles. Mark Twain, who traveled widely, disliked virtually every European food. Adolf Hitler hated meat and subsisted on gruel, linseed mush, muesli, and vegetarian soups. Alexander Theroux's Einstein's Beets is an astonishingly original and monumental study on this enigmatic subject - the world of food and food aversions. Theroux explicates the inexplicable, and often weird preoccupations of food aversions, unique among the thousands of books a year dealing with food. What more reveals what we are than food, the fuel by which we move, the resource by which we grow ? Who dislikes what foods and why ? Does memory play a role ? Is sight involved ? Smell ? How about touch ? Even hearing ? What about grudges ? Whim ? The desperate need to assert oneself somewhere? What about circumstances, beyond that, where a person is revolted by simply watching someone else eat? In this all-encompassing book, the novelist and poet Theroux probes the secret and mysterious attitudes that have emerged from the deep via hundreds of people, mostly famous and well known, in the matter of eating and dining out, hilariously recounting tales of confrontation and scandalous alienation in a book composed of an explosion of gossip, misconduct, confession, embarrassment, and perceptive observations. In doing so, Theroux has penetrated a baffling, otherwise closed world of glaring food frights, phobias, and fixations.
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Repenser nos alimentations, c'est repenser nos sociétés. Car partager un repas, et même faire nos courses, sont des moyens de nous relier aux autres. La façon de nous nourrir construit notre santé. Nos modes de production agricole façonnent nos paysages et définissent notre place dans la nature. Gérer des ressources pour produire, puis transformer et distribuer les aliments fondent nos économies. Nos registres du comestible, nos cuisines et nos manières de table racontent nos cultures. Enfin, et surtout, manger est un plaisir ... C'est en reconnaissant toutes ces dimensions avec une égale importance que cet ouvrage aborde les enjeux contemporains de l'alimentation. La proposition d'une écologie de l'alimentation s'ancre dans le double registre d'une science des relations et d'un engagement politique. Une telle approche permet de revisiter, parfois de façon inattendue, les mots d'ordre de l'alimentation durable. Elle vise aussi à nourrir les démarches citoyennes engagées dans la transformation des systèmes alimentaires. Entre essai d'experts et récit illustré d'exemples tirés des quatre coins du monde, cet ouvrage s'adresse aussi bien aux professionnels qu'à un grand public curieux des questions d'alimentation durable.
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