How Long to Read Food

How Long Does it Take to Read Food?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 29 minutes to read Food by John Coveney

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

In Food, John Coveney examines ‘food as ... ’ identity, politics, industry, regulation, the environment, justice and gastronomy. He explores how food helps us understand what it means to be human. The centrality of food in life, and the importance of food as life, is undeniable. As a source of biological substrates, personal pleasure and political power, food is and has been an enduring requirement of human biological, social and cultural existence. In recent years, interest in food has increased across the academic, public and popular spheres, fuelled by popular media’s constant play on the role of food and body size, and food and cooking, as a mass spectacle for TV audiences. Through food, we construct our social identities, our families and communities. However, Coveney also highlights the tensions between the industrialisation of food, the environment, and the iniquitous distribution of food. He also considers how the food industries, on which most of us must rely, have also had direct effects on our bodies through diet, and the development of illness and diseases. This accessible primer is for students and general readers alike, indeed, for anyone with an interest in food. It questions the idea that food is merely something inert on the plate. Instead, it shows how influential, symbolic, powerful and transformative food has come to be.

How long is Food?

Food by John Coveney is 87 pages long, and a total of 22,359 words.

This makes it 29% the length of the average book. It also has 27% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Food Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 2 minutes to read Food aloud.

What Reading Level is Food?

Food is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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