Full Description
This book considers the practices and techniques fans utilize to interact with different aspects and elements of food cultures. With attention to food cultures across nations, societies, cultures, and historical periods, the collected essays consider the rituals and values of fan communities as reflections of their food culture, whether in relation to particular foods or types of food, those who produce them, or representations of them. Presenting various theoretical and methodological approaches, the anthology brings together a series of empirical studies to examine the intersection of two fields of cultural practice and will appeal to sociologists, geographers and scholars of cultural studies with interests in fan studies and food cultures.
Contents
1. Introduction: Food Culture and Fandom 2. Food Studies: The Language and Narratives That Define Us 3. Food and Fandom: A Folklorist Food Studies Perspective 4. In Search of "Hestonthusiasts": Heston Blumenthal's Liminal Celebrity Chef Status and Hybridized Fan Practices 5. Poaching from the Preserves: Navigating the Food Network's Nomadic Fandom 6. Food Poisoning: The Rick and Morty Szechuan Sauce Debacle and the Temporalities of Toxic Fandom 7. Learning How to Cook Without Lifting a Knife: Food Television, Foodies, and Food Literacy 8. A Layover of Food: Understanding Anthony Bourdain's Approach of Describing Cultures through Culinary Interactions and Journalism 9. Consuming Butlers and Curry Buns: Cooking, Becoming, and Desiring with Black Butler 10. The Promise of Cake: Food Fandoms, Tourism, and Baking Practices Inspired by Portal 11. Making and Marketing Fan Food and Drink: Immersion and Transformative Work 12. The "Eatymologies" of the Theme Park: Re-creation, Imagination, and the "Extra/Ordinary" in Disney Foodstuff 13. Taste Culture: Fan Food as Sensorial Play and Pilgrimage 14. Procaffeinating: Mapping Coffee Fandom Via Social Media 15. For the Love of Beer: Craft Beer Fandom
