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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.

Table of Contents
1. Introduction 2. Class, Consumption and the Domestication of Food 3. Talking Food: Classed Narratives, Social Identities, and Biographical Transitions 4. Homemade Food: Individualised Processes of Household Investment 5. Culinary Capital: Knowledge, Learnt Practice and Acquired Taste 6. Conclusion

Feeding the Middle Classes: Taste, Class and

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      Publisher Bristol University Press
      Published 20 November 2023
      ISBN-13 9781529214888
      978-1529214888
      ISBN-10 1529214882
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      Cultural studies: food and society Social classes Sociology: family, kinship and relationships

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Table of Contents
      1. Introduction 2. Class, Consumption and the Domestication of Food 3. Talking Food: Classed Narratives, Social Identities, and Biographical Transitions 4. Homemade Food: Individualised Processes of Household Investment 5. Culinary Capital: Knowledge, Learnt Practice and Acquired Taste 6. Conclusion

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