Review

• Published in: Gastronomica Vol. 7; no. 2; p. 115
• Main Author: Griffin, Marcus B
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berkeley University of California Press Books Division 01-04-2007
• Subjects: Consumption; Cookbooks; Cooking; Donations; Drinking water; Ethnicity; Feminism; Food; Food availability; Food consumption; Fruits; Gender; Hunger; Interpersonal relations; Local economy; Plantations; Politics; Poverty; Provisioning; Satiety; Stereotypes; Vegetarianism; Womens health; United States > US; Honduras
• ISSN: 1529-3262; 1533-8622

Innesss book is important because it adds another page to the woefully thin library on food studies in the humanities, but it fails to engage with what seems to me to be the real stuff of meaningful human-istic work on the subject: questions of pleasure and disgust and desire, of hunger and satiety, of food as the stuff that literally and guratively makes our bodies, our politics, our society, our culture. Illustrations. $27.95 (paper) Recent studies have revealed how the problem of accessto food is intertwined with issues of food availability, poverty, and social justice. Because Flynns work is also shaped by a feminist and a moral economy perspective, she is able to broaden Sens entitlement approach and highlight the importance of charitable giving, social relations, and the links between local economies and the larger food system. Flynn shows how such basic activities as meal preparation, managing leftovers, and obtaining water for cooking, drinking, and cleaningas well as such factors as distance to the market and lack of electricityaffect food provisioning, acquisition, and consumption.