Feeding the Middle Classes
eBook - ePub

Feeding the Middle Classes

Taste, Class and Domestic Food Practices

  1. 180 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Feeding the Middle Classes

Taste, Class and Domestic Food Practices

About this book

Political and public stories about class and food rarely scrutinize how socio-economic and cultural resources enable access to certain foods.

Tracing the symbolic links between everyday eating at home and broader social frameworks, this book examines how classed relations play out in middle-class homes to show why class is relevant to all understandings of food in Great Britain.

The author illuminates how 'good' food, and the identities configured through its consumption, is associated with middle-class lifestyles and why this relationship is often unquestioned and thus saliently normalized.

Considering food consumption in a wider social context, the book offers an alternative understanding of class relations, which extends academic, political and public debates about privilege.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. List of Figures and Table
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. 1 Introduction
  8. 2 Class, Consumption and the Domestication of Food
  9. 3 Talking Food: Classed Narratives, Social Identities and Biographical Transitions
  10. 4 Homemade Food: Individualized Processes of Household Investment
  11. 5 Culinary Capital: Knowledge, Learnt Practice and Acquired Taste
  12. 6 Conclusion
  13. References
  14. Index