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Author Gibson, Kate, author

Title Feeding the middle classes : taste, class and domestic food practices / Kate Gibson
Published London Bristol University Press [2023]
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Description 1 online resource (v, 174 pages) : illustrations
Contents Front Matter -- Contents -- List of Figures and Table -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Class, Consumption and the Domestication of Food -- Talking Food: Classed Narratives, Social Identities and Biographical Transitions -- Homemade Food: Individualized Processes of Household Investment -- Culinary Capital: Knowledge, Learnt Practice and Acquired Taste -- Conclusion -- References -- Index
Summary Considering food consumption in a wider social context, this book offers an alternative understanding of class relations, which extends academic, political and public debates about privilege
Subject Food habits -- Social aspects
Middle class.
Middle class -- Social life and customs
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.
Food habits -- Social aspects
Middle class
Middle class -- Social life and customs
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781529214901
1529214904