School lunch is in general regulated through policies and agendas constituted by the
perspectives of adults. In this article, we focus on children's lived experiences of school …

This book introduces the notion of culinary capital to investigate socialisation and school
mealtime experiences in an academy school based in the UK. Drawing on interviews …

Purpose–Social, physical and temporal characteristics are known to influence the eating
experience and the effectiveness of nutritional policies. As the school meal service features …

Promoting healthy eating among children has high priority in Nordic countries but remains
complex. With the purpose of contributing knowledge to inform efforts to promote healthy …

Tasting food is the first step toward diversifying eating habits and studies with children have
typically focused on their sensory education and willingness to try new foods. While very …

Play has long been understood as an important pedagogical practice, particularly in early
childhood education and care settings. Playing with food, however, has typically been …

The importance of building healthy relationships with food in children's early years is of
paramount importance. Building on prior work exploring the social and linguistic practices in …

This article reports on a specific aspect of a larger study of 'a day in the life'of five two-and-a-
half-year-old girls in families in Canada, Italy, Peru, Thailand and the UK. The larger study …

Family mealtimes are made up of dense social activity in which children are engaged in
cultural practices and meanings. They are pregnant arenas for the production of sociality …

This article is based on an ethnographic study that explored everyday food practices and
relationships in three residential children's homes in Scotland. On the one hand, food …