Food : Design and Culture by Claire Catterall

Never before has food been such an all-consuming issue, with enormous impact on our lives at many levels, from the cultural to the technical and the social to the economic. The way that we prepare, serve and eat food is a powerful reflection of our way of life. It involves social ritual as well as aesthetics, technology and functional issues. Every step of the process is shaped by design: from the way that food is presented to the utensils used in its consumption. Food is the first book to examine the different aspects of design in current obsession, with devoted to such issues as supermarkets the rise of the designer restaurant, the design of the kitchen and the semantics of food.