Book Review/CompteRendu: David Inglis and Debra Gimlin, Globalization of Food. Oxford & New York: Berg, 2010, 296 pp. $28.63 paper (978-1-691-84520-2)

“Globalization of Food by David Inglis and Debra Gimlin is one of these recent contributions, providing a comprehensive guide to key issues involving globalization of production, distribution and consumption of food in the early 2000s. The book covers a wide range of issues such as slow food movement, food localism, fair-trade, global value chains, dietary transformation, the obesity epidemic, cosmopolitanism and hybrid cuisines, providing insights on how globalization is seen by 21 social scientists, most of whom are sociologists and anthropologists. While this creates a rather disjointed approach to study food globalization, what unifies all of these pieces is the desire to view food through the lens of globalization and globalization through the lens of food."