Fast food kids : French fries, lunch lines, and social ties

• Tác giả: Amy L Best
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-10: 1479802328
• ISBN-10: 1479842702
• ISBN-13: 978-1479802326
• ISBN-13: 978-1479842704
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 642.1 Meals for home, family, individuals
• Thông tin xuất bản: New York : New York University Press, 2017
• Mô tả vật lý: xiv, 245 pages ; , 24 cm
• Bộ sưu tập: Khoa học ứng dụng
• ID: 158806
• Chủ đề: 1. Convenience foods--Social aspects--United States; 2. Convenience foods--Social aspects; 3. Food--Social aspects--United States; 4. Food--Social aspects; 5. Food habits--United States; 6. Food habits; 7. Youth--Nutrition--United States; 8. Youth--Nutrition; 9. Youth--Social conditions; 10. Youth--Social conditions--United States

Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-234) and index

Tóm tắt

 The book provides a thorough account of the role that food plays in the lives of today's youth, teasing out the many contradictions of food as a cultural object, fast food portrayed as a necessity for the poor and yet, reviled by upper-middle class parents
  fast food restaurants as one of the few spaces that kids can claim and effectively 'take over' for several hours each day
  food corporations spending millions each year to market their food to kids and to lobby Congress against regulations
  schools struggling to deliver healthy food young people will actually eat, and the difficulty of arranging family dinners, which are known to promote family cohesion and stability. -- amazon.co