The Res-Sisters When Theresa May became the UK’s second female Prime Minister in June this year, the British press deliberated whether [...]
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Category "2016"
Focus: Food and Eating
Alan Warde and Luke Yates In this edition of Discover Society, Alan Warde and Luke Yates bring together research reports and [...]
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Viewpoint: Fish Lips – The Tragedy of Luxury
Richard Wilk In the last two years events called “trash fish dinners” have been held all over the United States, mostly [...]
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Fighting food waste with dumpster dinners
Marie Mourad and Alex Barnard By revealing and rescuing the piles of edible food left outside supermarkets, “dumpster divers” have contributed [...]
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Policy Briefing: Sustainable and healthy eating patterns?
Tara Garnett ‘The food system is broken’ says Oxfam. Government scientific advisors warn of a ‘perfect storm’ of global events influenced [...]
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Of flavour and sound
Isabelle Darmon In their cultural and artistic creations and practices, human beings grapple with – colours, sounds, aromas, flavours, rhythms, timbres, [...]
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Dining In Style
Gary Alan Fine Once, not so very long ago, restaurants were barely newsworthy and chefs were dismissed, not celebrated. They were [...]
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Fictional farms and marketing messages
Peter Jackson In March 2016, Tesco faced criticism for labelling new food products with the names of farms that proved to [...]
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Food and the sociogenesis of climate change
Mark Harvey There is now widespread recognition that the planet has entered a new epoch in which humans have radically [...]
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The everyday life of a fish market
Dawn Lyon Billingsgate fish market is a fascinating social space for exploring the working rhythms and routines of market life, observing [...]
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