-Introduces readers to the history of food on television, highlighting the conditions for the emergence of particular formats, prominent figures, industrial developments, and viewing/programming trends-along with their broader consequences and influences. -Illustrates how food television intersects with major aesthetic, generic, cultural and political shifts and points of tension-framing these in historical and theoretical contexts-to provide students with a critical cultural lens from which to evaluate and make sense of contemporary food culture. -Provides readers with a series of case studies to illustrate the workings of television as a major and dynamic locus where a broader, global popular culture is continuously shaped, circulated and recalibrated anew.

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