These anthropologists, sociologists and historians draw upon their international field experience to examine the change in food systems around the globe. The contributors offer a cultural perspective on markets, industrial production and food economies. Finding Lao survival food presented as exotic offerings in trendy American restaurants and traditional Japanese fast-foods in 7-Elevens, they reveal the global and corporate connections in the slow food movement, and local and regional variations of the fast food industry. Annotation c2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Richard Wilk is chair of the anthropology department at Indiana University and past president of the Society for Economic Anthropology. He hwas conducted most of his fieldwork in Belize and the United States. His publications included:The Environment in Anthropology (with Nora Haenn, 2001 New York University Press);Economies and Cultures: Foundations of Economic Anthropology (1996 Westview Press). With Josiah Heyman, he is co-editor of the AltaMira Series in Globalization and the Environment.