Routledge Food Studies
About the Book Series
This book series welcomes contributions across a wide range of topics and from a wide range disciplinary approaches relating to food studies. It includes research monographs, textbooks and titles aimed at professionals, NGOs and policy-makers. Authors or editors of potential new titles should contact Hannah Ferguson, Editor ([email protected]).
Food Policy and Practice in Early Childhood Education and Care: Children, Practitioners, and Parents in an English Nursery
1st Edition
By Francesca Vaghi
April 14, 2025
This book is about food and feeding in early childhood education and care, offering an exploration of the intersection of children’s food, education, family intervention, and public health policies. The notion of ‘good’ food for children is often communicated as a matter of common sense by ...
French Gastronomy in the US: Transatlantic Foodways and New Convivialities
1st Edition
By Thérèse Migraine-George
March 03, 2025
This book focuses on the (re)invention of French food in the US, probing the intricate transatlantic dynamics underlying notions of cooking and eating French. By looking at French gastronomy as both a symbolic formation and an exclusionary practice closely tied to power, class, and race, this book ...
Culinary Man and the Kitchen Brigade: Normative Subjectivity in Western Fine Dining Traditions
1st Edition
By Jordan Fallon
September 23, 2024
Culinary Man and the Kitchen Brigade offers an exploration of the field of normative subjectivity circulated within western fine dining traditions, presenting a theoretical analysis of the governing relationship between the chef, who embodies the Culinary Man, and the fine dining brigade. The book ...
Food Education and Gastronomic Tradition in Japan and France: Ethical and Sociological Theories
1st Edition
By Haruka Ueda
August 26, 2024
Drawing on ethical and sociological theories of food, this book presents a new approach to food education that moves beyond nutrition-centred education. Food education has gained increasing scientific and political importance in many countries as a promising way to change contemporary eating. ...
Cultural Flows in High-End Cuisine: From the Periphery to the Center
1st Edition
By Christel Lane, M. Pilar Opazo
July 18, 2024
Focusing on high-end cuisine, this book examines the flows of culinary knowledge from culturally peripheral locations to two cities at the global center, London and New York. Through the voices of chefs and other professionals in the industry, this book invites readers to rethink our understandings...
Eating in US National Parks: Cosmopolitan Taste and Food Tourism
1st Edition
By Kathleen LeBesco
February 26, 2024
This book presents a fascinating exploration of eating experiences within US national parks, explaining how, on what, and why people eat in national parks and how this has changed over the last century. National parks are enjoying unprecedented popularity, and they are especially popular sites for ...
Finding Meaning in Wine: A US Blend
1st Edition
By Michael Sinowitz
August 01, 2023
This book examines controversies in American wine culture and how those controversies intersect with and illuminate current academic and cultural debates about the environment and about interpretation. With a specific focus on the United States of America, the methods that we use to discuss ...