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Food Cultures-Introduction - Coggle Diagram
Food Cultures-Introduction
food as a social resource
food media
recipe books, food blogs, food writers, foodie influencers, films about/featuring food, food television
Caroline Hatchett, The TikTok school of cooking
encourages people to experiment with food, "passport of food knowledge"
Zaynab Issa, content creator in Brooklyn states that TikTok cooking videos are "attention grabbing"
Ahmad Alzahab, the creator behind The Golden Balance, “Social media as a whole, I think, is reversing itself from wanting to paint this perfect picture. It’s
looping back to favor the raw and uncut. These are the curves I have on my body. This is how I
cook with no filter,”
content for a variety of skills, the apps duet function encourages user participation
approachable recipes could be solution for a country with declining rates of home cooking
food culture, keep trackl of some dinners, food news
food as a lens
history, heritage, memory
food as nostalgia, performance, aspiration, plesasure, togetherness, desire
for example, Christmas dinner
formal and familiar
food and diplomacy, food as occasion
Donald Trump posing with his fast food buffet
trying to present himself as normal
for football players, presents notions of masculinity, men don't want "elegant" dining
justice, equality, rights
March, food inflation costs went up by 1/5th
what sytems can be put in place for a more equitable food culture
Free School Meal’ scandal - photographs circulated on social media which showed the lunch parcels provided by private catering firm Chartwells to children learning at home during the pandemic.
charging £30
morality, bad/good
food prepping, social media- driven food culture/ food strategy that is supposed to save time and money, be healthier, more convenient
food as a language
food as a connection to our wider cultral contextsl
“Eating is of interest [because it shows] our connectedness and distance from each other [….] it throws into relief the heartfelt, the painful, the playful and pleasurable articulations of identity”(Probyn, 2000:14)
a form of communication, both a material resource and a cultral resource
exchange of food= cultural activity
Levi Strauss (structuralist anthropologist)
culinary triangle
milk can be consumed raw, can go rotten, can be cooked to become cheese
interested in systematically mapping out social rules, their ideas about langauge is that it requires for everyone to know the rulesl, collective agreement on meanings of wordsl which allow us to communicate successfully, same applies for food
some people build on Strauss's ideas, proposed the notion of "The food alphabet", basic elements of food culture, formally structred and normalised sets of practices around food, providing a sphere of possibilities for how we discuss food
decipheringl a meal
Mary Douglas
food as a social code
"a code affords a general set of possibilities for sending particular messages"
What are the general possibilities around the idea of 'a meal' and how do we use those to send particular messages to people we share meals with/prepare meals for (or not!)
patterns of food, how do we use food to mark certain events?
Micheal Nicod " a Method of Eliciting the Social Meaning of Food"
“the meaning of a meal is found in a system of repeated analogies. Each meal carries something of the meaning of the other meals. Each meal is a structured social event which structures others in its own image.”
the meal as a metonymt analogy, every meal we eat, takes us backl to a meal we've had before, snese of reproduction of life
manners, for example stirring drink spoon not put in mouth
what counts as a meal?
MAIN+ 2 SIDES?
