Introduction: Setting the anthropological table : An anthropological appetite for food ; Social anthropological methods and principles ; Ethnographic fieldwork, local and global ; A theoretical trifle ; Cuisines
pt. 1. Edibility. 1. Omnivorousness: defining food : Omnivorousness ; The omnivore's dilemma ; Food classifications and rules ; Humoral classifications ; Nutritional classifications ; State-based nutritional food rules
pt. 2. Ingredients. 2. Settled ingredients: domestic food production : Food-getting strategies and cuisines ; Hunter-gatherine or foraging ; Domestication of plants and animals ; Pastoralism ; Horticulture ; Agriculture ; Exchanging ingredients and flavours
3. Mobile ingredients: global food production : Further agricultural intensification ; Exporting industrial agriculture ; Commercializing food: industrial and national cuisines
pt. 3. Cooking. 4. Cooks and kitchens : The origins of fire use and cooking ; Cooking techniques ; Cooking and food-getting strategies ; Thinking through cooking: the culinary triangle ; Cooking and gender ; Men's conspicuous cooking: public cuisine ; Domestic kitchens: home-cooked cuisines
5. Recipes and dishes : Recipes: creating dishes ; Experiential cooking: domestic recipes ; Textual cooking: commercial recipes ; Cookbooks: codifying national cuisines ; British cuisine: cookbooks and dishes ; Cookbooks: travelling recipes and dishes
pt. 4. Eating. 6. Eating-in: commensality and gastro-politics : Patterns of eating ; When: mealtimes ; What: dishes and proper meals ; How: commensality ; Where: private and public ; Who: kin to strangers ; Gastro-politics ; Special meals: feasting
7. Eating-out and gastronomy : Eating away from home: a risky business? ; Street food: eating standing up ; Public eating: sitting down ; Characteristics of restaurants ; Gastronomy: cultivating culinary taste ; Types of restaurants: culinary foodscapes ; Indian cuisine in Britain ; Chinese cuisine in North America ; Restaurants as "ethnosites": cross-cultural encounters
pt. 5. Digesting. 8. Gastro-anomie: global indigestion : Globalized industrial food: gastro-anomie ; Indigenous gastro-anomie ; Digesting the discourse ; Angry farmers: food sovereignty ; Food crises: food security ; Food insecurity: health, gastro-anomie, and cuisines
9. Local digestion: making the global at home : Localizing global foods: from sushi to hamburgers ; Globalized commodities ; Locavorism: eating locally ; Farmers' markets: local foods and faces ; Ethical consumers: local and global implications
Epilogue: leftovers to takeaway : takeaway cuisine ; Takeaway leftovers.
