Food media : celebrity chefs and the politics of everyday interference / Signe Rouseau.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Food media : a fantasy industry -- The rise and rise of food television -- How not to think about what to eat.

Introduction : Do you remember when chefs just cooked? -- Part I. Food media: a fantasy industry : The new study of food : Chef Mario Batali, on the subject of cooking ; Enter the foodie ; Television: the magic screen ; To your health ; Let me entertain you -- Foodie books and fantasies : Communication: 'the object thus made common' ; A life less ordinary (David, Fisher, Liebling) ; Drooling over history ; A life more ordinary (food literature) ; Ignorance as commodity -- Part II: The rise and rise of food television : The celebrity (professional) chef: Jamie Oliver : The naked chef ; @jamie_oliver ; Jamie's kitchen ; The Jamie effect, or The practice of everyday interference -- The celebrity (amateur) chef: Rachael Ray : Multi-millionaire girl-next-door ; The Yum-O! revolution ; Food porn ; Disordered eating -- Fetishism and the imagination: Heston Blumenthal and Nigella Lawson : Everyday mythology ; In search of perfection ; Fetishism: 'the definitive mistake of the pre-enlightened mind' ; The domestic goddess -- Part III: How not to think about what to eat : Nutritionism, bad science and spectacles of disordered eating : Morbid fascinations ; You are what you eat ; Supersize vs. superskinny ; Super skinny me -- Obesity: whose responsibility is it anyway? : Fat stories ; The obesity police ; Fat taxes ; Evidence: what of? ; The public good.

Exploring the rise of the celebrity chef and covering key figures such as Jamie Oliver and Rachael Ray as well as popular concepts like foodies, food porn and fetishism, Food Media highlights how the intersections between celebrity culture and food media influence everyday food choices.

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