This book is a must-read for researchers and students working in the sociology of food. Eating is treated as a social phenomenon in its own right, and the book covers all of the key issues. The cutting-edge, theoretically informed analyses of eating in modern everyday lives are based upon solid and systematic empirical comparison, not only across the different Nordic countries, but also across time.

Bente Halkier, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Important and insightful, benefiting from a rare opportunity to conduct a re-study of eating habits and routines, this book provides a detailed and systematic comparative picture of continuity and change in eating practice across the Nordic countries. It is a study with wide substantive and methodological significance for the sociology of food and eating.

Alan Warde, University of Manchester, UK

'A fantastic piece of scholarship. Drawing from research that is longitudinal and comparative across multiple countries, the authors tell a story about food consumption that few have the data to tell.'

Michael Carolan, Colorado State University, USA