Psychology 2054A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Middle Ages, Nutritionism, Pleasure

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2054A/B
• Professor: Foley

Document Summary

Reduces the meaning of food to sensory pleasure. The motive is appetite: desire for god taste experiences. Also involves the aesthetics of food: gourmet magazines and books. These magazines and books are expensive to purchase and the ads in them are aimed at people living on no less than 000 a year. Gross sensuality of food is matched by the entertainments designed to attract children and the conveniences provided for their parents. Blue collar cuisine= an endless variety of recommendations and recipes for inexpensive dishes that can be prepared easily by harried housewives and working mothers. Religious emphasize spiritual and moral ideas of virtue based on restrictive diets or abstinence: catholics. These practices may have originated in primitive tribal groups as intuitive health measures or for ecological reasons, the persistence of these food traditions and their link with spiritual and moral values indicate the need for psychological explanation.