Snapshots of Swedish food culture

The Swedish Food Retail Market

The Swedish food retail market contains of three major actors, ICA, KF and Axfood, all in all dominating 75 percent of the total market shares. The scant number of retailing actors indicates that the Swedish food retail market is a highly concentrated oligopoly, which as a fact has given rise to definite discussions and argumentations concerning the market situation. But is the food retail mark...

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Uyghur food culture.

Uyghur food culture has a long history. It is rich in resources, with the strong characteristics of being "green" and healthy, and having high nutritional value. We analyze the development and current status of Uyghur food culture, and explore the value of developing this food culture's resources. Traditional Uyghur food culture formed with influences from many ethnic groups, and has evolved in...

Food and Culture

reexamined: Broadening our understanding of social and evolutionary influences, pp. 155-190. Acknowledgments. The authors are grateful to Hazel R. Markus and Adam B. Cohen for their extremely helpful comments and suggestions on a previous version of this chapter. The need to include cultural factors to explain behavior seems particularly obvious when it comes to food given an easily observed cu...

Food Safety Culture Paramount Than Traditional Food Safety System and Food Safety Culture in South African Food Industries

The fact that traditional food safety system in the absence of food safety culture is inadequate has recently become a cause of concern for food safety professionals and other stakeholders. Focusing on implementation of traditional food safety system i.e HACCP prerequisite program and HACCP without the presence of food safety culture in the food industry has led to the processing, marketing and...