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Library Workshop Food, Culture & Lifestyles

Library Workshop Food, Culture & Lifestyles. Food & Culture. Everyone eats from birth to end What is food? How is food related to your life? Food study has multiple dimensions. Food study involves different subjects. History Origination, e.g. Southeast Asia / Japan?. Environment

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Library Workshop Food, Culture & Lifestyles

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  1. Library WorkshopFood, Culture & Lifestyles

  2. Food & Culture • Everyone eats from birth to end • What is food? • How is food related to your life? • Food study has multiple dimensions

  3. Food study involves different subjects History Origination, e.g. Southeast Asia / Japan? Environment e.g. Bluefin tuna Sociology Industrialization, e.g. Sushi bar Linguistics 寿司/ 鮨 / 鮓 Anthropology Globalization, e.g. California Roll Culture Etiquette, e.g. chopstick / hand?

  4. Example: Food and Language • Two Chinese pronunciations of “Tea” have made their way into other languages around the world Chá (茶) Tê (Tea) Japanese Korean Thai Arabic Hindi Greek Czech Swedish … English French Spanish Italian German Dutch Indonesian Malay …

  5. Reference Works • Provide background information or definition of specific topic • Keywords • Food culture, food habits, cookery • Encyclopedia, Dictionary • Some E-reference tools are available online

  6. Encyclopedia • Cambridge world history of food • Encyclopedia of food and culture • Encyclopedia of food sciences and nutrition • Foods & nutrition encyclopedia • The Oxford companion to food • The Oxford encyclopedia of food and drink in America

  7. Example • Why is the soft drink named 7 Up? • Search at Library Catalogue: • Keywords = encyclopedia food America • The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America

  8. General Works • Useful Subject Headings • Cookery • Eating (Philosophy) • Food habits • Food preferences • Diets • Dinners and dining • Drinking behavior • Food consumption • Food preferences • Gastronomy • Vegetarianism

  9. Useful Call No. Range

  10. Example • Is there any books on Globalization of Chinese foods? • Search at Library Catalogue • Keywords = globali?ation AND (china OR chinese) AND food* • The globalization of Chinese food • China to Chinatown : Chinese food in the West

  11. A Sociologist’s View on Food 馮一冲(2011) ： 《吃掉社會：走出廚房看世界》，香港，三聯書店（香港）有限公司。 • 飲食作為一種社會行為，不論從食材的分類、採購、處理，到烹調、享用、評價等過程，都受到所置身的集體「遊戲規則」所限。 • 是誰規定吃和牛蘸燒汁是品味表現？ • 誰散佈吃buffet 一定有著數的言論？ • 鳳爪本身無肉無味為何我們仍啃得津津有味？ • 「狗肉該不該吃」的討論立據也能扯上全球大趨勢下誰是王者之辯？ • 飲食行為其實隱藏大量社會行為元素，讓人思考個體在社會結構中的際遇與位置，洞悉這些問題，便知道如何切斷那條牽著你鼻子的繩。

  12. Some more New Titles on Food 張展鴻 (2009) ： 《 公路上的廚師 》，香港，次文化堂。 莊玉惜(2011) ： 《 街邊有檔大牌檔 》，香港，三聯書店（香港）有限公司。 陳曉蕾 (2011) ： 《 剩食 》，香港，三聯書店（香港）有限公司。

  13. Media Resources • Media Resources Collection: DVD, VCD, VHS … • Example: Any DVD/VCD on religious aspects of food? • Search at Library Catalogue • Keywords = food* AND religio* • Limit to Media Resources Collection • Limit to DVD/VCD format • A world of food : tastes & taboos in different cultures

  14. Media Resources Collection • Examples • Sushi: The spirit of embracing natureTell me what you eat • A world of food: Tastes & taboos in different cultures • Global eating: Learning from other cultures • Bugs for breakfast: Food & culture • Did cooking make us human? • Slow food revolution • Foodessence • Culture and cuisine • The real food of China • Why we eat, what we eat! • 謝天 : 臺灣人的米食文化 …

  15. Local TV Programmes (EdVideo) Video-On-Demand service Available in WMV format

  16. Local TV Programmes (EdVideo) Keywords = food*, drink*, 食物, 飲食… Examples: Variety is the spice Beyond foodways 天下一碗 世界在廚房 滋味人生 香港故事 [2007] 涼藥 • 苦口 食古 • 不化 香港故事 [2008] 米 東江逆流 燒出好滋味

  17. Databases • Academic Research Library • Arts, business, education, humanities, psychology and sciences, etc • Academic Search Premier • Multi-disciplinary, covers all aspect of academic study • Humanities Full Text • All areas of humanities studies • 中文電子期刊服務 (Taiwan) • 人文學、社會科學、自然科學、應用科學、醫學與生命科學等 • 中國期刊全文數據庫 (China) • 教育與社會科學綜合輯, 文史哲輯

  18. Example: How sushi becomes a globalized food? • Try Academic Search Premier • Keywords = sushi, globalization

  19. Example: 全球化下的飲食文化 • Try 中文電子期刊服務CEPS • Keywords = 全球化, 食物, 飲食

  20. Internet Resources

  21. World Food Habitshttp://lilt.ilstu.edu/rtdirks/ • References of food habits of different regions

  22. Bibliography on Food and Culturehttp://www.utexas.edu/courses/stross/bibliographies/foodbib.htmhttp://www.cuhk.edu.hk/ant/publish/culture.pdf

  23. Ask your librarian @ Library Information Counter Tel: 2948 6653 Email: libinfo@ied.edu.hk

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