Culinary Taste: Consumer Behaviour in the International Restaurant Sector

by Donald Sloan

Overview

Culinary Taste: Consumer Behaviour in the International Restaurant Sector looks at the factors that influence our culinary tastes and dining behaviour, illustrating how they can translate into successful business in industry.

With a foreword from Prue Leith, restaurateur, author, teacher, and prolific cookery writer and novelist, and a list of well-known and respected international contributors from the UK, France, Australia and Hong Kong, this text discusses the issues involved from a multitude of angles.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780080476957
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Publication date:	11/04/2003
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	208
File size:	522 KB

Read an Excerpt

Includes foreward from Prue Leith

Table of Contents

Foreword (Leith); Introduction (Sloan); The social construction of taste (Seymour); The postmodern palate: dining out in the individualized era (Sloan); Taste and space: eating out in the city today (Bell); Chic cuisine: the impact of fashion on food (Finkelstein); The shock of the new: a sociology of nouvelle cuisine (Wood); Contemporary lifestyles: the case of wine (Demossier); Shaping culinary taste: the influence of commercial operators(Brookes); Gender and culinary taste (Wood); Developing a taste for health (Fouillé); My most memorable meal ever! Hospitality as an emotional experience (Lashley, Morrison, Randall); Index