Christel Lane

From Taverns to Gastropubs

Food, Drink, and Sociality in England

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The pub is a prominent social institution integral to British identity. From Taverns of Gastropubs: Food, Drink, and Sociality in England charts the historical development of the English public house from the Restoration period to the twenty-first century, culminating in the contemporary gastropub. It explores issues of class, gender, and national identification to understand the social identity of patrons and how publicans conceive of their establishments'organizational identity.In the context of large-scale pub closures since the 1990s the gastropub is viewed as both a reaction to the traditional drinking pub and as a promising alternative.… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-19-256063-6
EAN: 9780192560636
Produktnummer: 29378232
Verlag: Oxford University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Seitenangabe: 272 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 1'259 KB

Über den Autor

Christel Lane is Professor Emeritus of Sociology and a Fellow of St. John's College at the University of Cambridge, UK. Professor Lane's work on fine-dining restaurants in Britain and Germany and on gastropubs combines her long-standing interest in economic and organizational sociology with the sociology of culture. Her previous books include The Cultivation of Taste: Chefs and the Organization of Fine Dining (Oxford University Press, 2014), and she haspublished articles on food and dining in Food, Culture and Society, British Journal of Sociology, Poetics, and Industry and Innovation.