Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Preface and acknowledgements -- 1 Approaches to the study of food, health and identity -- 2 Family meals - a thing of the past? -- 3 Marriages, weddings and their cakes -- 4 How British is British food? -- 5 Fast food/spoiled identity: Iranian migrants in the British catering trade -- 6 'Bacon sandwiches got the better of me': meat-eating and vegetarianism in South-East London -- 7 Urban pleasure? On the meaning of eating out in a northern city -- 8 'We never eat like this at home': food on holiday -- 9 Too hard to swallow? The palatability of healthy eating advice -- 10 Being told what to eat: conversations in a Diabetes Day Centre -- 11 Health, eating and heart attacks: Glaswegian Punjabi women's thinking about everyday food -- 12 Scaremonger or scapegoat? The role of the media in the emergence of food as a social issue -- 13 Declining meat: past, present ... and future imperfect? -- Index.