Fast food/slow food: the cultural economy of the global food system

Ch. 1. Food at moderate speeds / Sidney Mintz

Ch. 2. From wild weeds to artisanal cheese / Richard Wilk

Ch. 3. Building lives with food : production, circulation, and consumption of food in Yap / James A. Egan, Michael L. Burton and Karen L. Nero

Ch. 4. Food for the Malian middle class : an invisible cuisine / Dolores Koenig

Ch. 5. Taco Bell, Maseca, and slow food : a postmodern apocalypse for Mexico's peasant cuisine? / Jeffrey M. Pilcher

Ch. 6. From hunger foods to heritage foods : challenges to food localization in Lao PDR / Penny Van Esterik

Ch. 7. Tasting the worlds of yesterday and today : culinary tourism and nostalgia foods in post-Soviet Russia / Melissa L. Caldwell

Ch. 8. Kaiten-zushi and Konbini : Japanese food culture in the age of mechanical reproduction / Theodore C. Bestor

Ch. 9. Rice ball rivalries : Japanese convenience stores and the appetite of late capitalism / Gavin Hamilton Whitelaw

Ch. 10. Global tastes, local contexts : an ethnographic account of fast food expansion in San Fernando City, the Philippines / Ty Matejowsky

Ch. 11. From the bottom up : the global expansion of Chinese vegetable trade for New York City markets / Valerie Imbruce

Ch. 12. role of ideology in New Mexico's CSA (community supported agriculture) organizations : conflicting visions between growers and members / Lois Stanford

Ch. 13. Artisanal cheese and economies of sentiment in New England / Heather Paxson

Ch. 14. Fast and slow food in the fast lane : automobility and the Australian diet / Cathy Banwell, Jane Dixon, Sarah Hinde and Heather McIntyre

Ch. 15. Just Java : roasting fair trade coffee / Sarah Lyon.