TV cookery shows hosted by celebrity chefs. Meal prep kitchens. Online grocers and restaurant review sites. Competitive eating contests,

Food, Media and Contemporary Culture is designed to interrogate the cultural fascination with food as the focus of a growing number of visual

Over the space of a few generations, women’s relationship with food has changed dramatically. Yet – despite significant advances in gender

This important new cultural analysis tells two stories about food. The first depicts good food as democratic. Foodies frequent ‘hole in the