Promotional Information

An insightful map of the landscape of social meals, this book argues that the ways in which we eat together play a central role in social life.

Table of Contents

CoverTitleContentsAcknowledgments1. Feeding Friends and Others2. From Formality to Comfort3. Dinner Parties in America4. Sweetening the Pot5. Potlucks6. Artfulness, Solidarity, and IntimacyNotesBibliographyIndex

About the Author

 Alice Julier is an associate professor and the master's program director of food studies at Chatham University.

Reviews

"Cosmopolitan dining habits have become a form of social capital, as Alice P. Julier argues in Eating Together: Food, Friendship, and Inequality, a study of social eating at home in America that explores the use of food to create both ties and boundaries. Julier's book contributes to the small field of sociology on friendship, often considered the least hierarchical of relationships. Yet, as Eating Together illustrates, these supposedly democratic bonds are influenced by structural inequalities in class, race and gender." - Times Literary Supplement, "I eagerly read Eating Together: Food, Friendship, and Inequality, engulfing new insights offered in her cultural and sociological analysis of the significance of domestic hospitality in people's lives. An excellent, much needed contribution to food studies as well as sociology and gender studies."--Psyche A. Williams-Forson, author of Building Houses out of Chicken Legs: Black Women, Food, and Power