How we buy food
The changing role of food in our lives as consumers and shoppers
Roderick WhiteAdmap
Food is essential: we must eat to live. But food is also a source of experiment, a symbol of status, a weapon of seduction, and, for some, a way of life. Or, a bore and a chore. We buy food to eat at home, to snack in the street or at entertainment venues; we eat out at cafs, fast-food restaurants, palaces of gourmandise and snobbery. We buy to feed our families and to entertain our friends. ...