Food and drink between nutrition, cult and culture

The intake of food represents the biological basis for keeping us alive and enabling us to perform special services. However, eating and drinking go far beyond this purely physiological function. They are existential in the broadest sense of our existence and thus indispensably linked to our cultural basis. Eating and drinking thus become the cultural theme par excellence.§The book is dedicated to the cultural theme of eating and drinking and contains contributions on the historical development of food production and nutrition up to the modern food cult, on the current problem areas of nutrition and health, on the examination of literature, film and the visual arts with food and drinking, on the religious background of eating rules and on the economic reality of the current food supply. In a broad context, the.