Studies of 'food deserts', neighborhoods in which healthy food is expensive and/or difficult to
find, have received much recent political attention. These studies reflect the popularity of a …

The failures of food security and other policies to guarantee the right to food motivate the
calls for the radical reforms to the food system called for by food sovereignty. Food …

This editorial introduces a special issue of Food, Culture & Society and works to add a
parallel, substantive take on the phenomenon of the food celebrity and the mediated …

This textbook equips students with the ability to analyze and think critically about
contemporary food topics. A thorough introduction to the sociology of food and eating, the …

This paper explores the powerful and mediating role of celebrity chefs over audience
relationships with food through analysis of Jamie Oliver and his recent series Save with …

Around 15 years ago, the Chronicle of Higher Education charted the emergence of food
studies as an academic field, noting a recent 'publishing bonanza'that had turned this …

Jamie Oliver—the global celebrity megachef extraordinaire—does not like sugar. Butter and
olive oil, yes, but sugar is a serious problem because, as he puts on his website,'[o] besity is …

In this article, we focus on one of the four nodes (trauma/inequity, exchange, land and labor)
around which food justice organizing appears to occur: acknowledging and confronting …

We Want Land to Live explores the current boundaries of radical approaches to food
sovereignty. First coined by La Via Campesina (a global movement whose name means" the …

This paper addresses the social and cultural significance of convenience food, often
regarded as among the least healthy and most unsustainable of dietary options, subject to …