Pressure cooker: why home cooking won’t solve our problems and what we can do about it
            <b>Pressure cooker: why home cooking won’t solve our problems and what we can do about it</b>
            , by Sarah Bowen, Joslyn Brenton, and Sinikka Elliott, New York, Oxford University Press, 2019, 352 pp., ISBN: 978-0190663292

Boni, Zofia

doi:10.1080/15528014.2019.1658155

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“…While more frequent home cooking is associated with better diet quality and is generally perceived to be healthier and more affordable, low-income and food insecure households still face multiple barriers to preparing healthy meals (12)(13)(14)(15)(16)(17) . Common barriers to healthy cooking among low-income households include lack of time and limited affordability of and access to fresh ingredients (18) .…”

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Development and implementation of a community health centre-based cooking skills intervention in Detroit, MI

Garcia

Ford

Pike

et al. 2020

Public Health Nutr.

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Objective: To develop and implement a community-tailored, food agency-based cooking programme at a community health centre (CHC) and evaluate the effect of the intervention on cooking confidence and food waste. Design: This study used an exploratory, sequential mixed methods design. Focus groups (n 38) were conducted to inform the development of a cooking intervention, then six cooking classes (n 45) were planned and piloted in the health centre’s teaching kitchen. Changes in cooking confidence and related outcomes were assessed using pre- and post-class surveys. Follow-up interviews (n 12) were conducted 2–4 months post-intervention to assess satisfaction and short-term outcomes. Setting: A CHC in Detroit, MI. Participants: Spanish- and English-speaking adults aged ≥18 years recruited at the CHC. Results: In the formative focus groups, patients identified multiple barriers to cooking healthy meals, including trade-offs between quality, cost and convenience of food, chronic disease management and lack of time and interest. Each cooking class introduced a variety of cooking techniques and food preservation strategies. Participants demonstrated increased confidence in cooking (P 0·004), experimenting with new ingredients (P 0·006) and knowing how to make use of food before it goes bad (P 0·017). In post-class interviews, participants reported that they valued the social interaction and participatory format and that they had used the recipes and cooking techniques at home. Conclusions: A community-tailored, hands-on cooking class was an effective way to engage patients at a CHC and resulted in increased cooking confidence.

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Development and implementation of a community health centre-based cooking skills intervention in Detroit, MI

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Pike

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Public Health Nutr.

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“…These trends are significant for sociologists less because of the implications they hold for dietary health, but because they buttress a moralized narrative that tends to situate blame for them within individual families-and mothers in particular-rather than the complex social and cultural transformations in family life and food provisioning that have taken place over the past half-century. The cultural representation of home-cooked family meals buttresses the moralized standards for "good" foodwork defined in the previous section as it is associated with normative expressions of Euro-North American nuclear family life, including characteristics like stable, connected families, thriving children, attentive, loving mothers, and healthy, fit bodies (Bowen et al, 2014(Bowen et al, , 2019. Within prevailing narratives about foodwork, these highly valued outcomes are all directly attributed to healthy home-cooked family meals and mothers' labor to make them happen.…”

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“…Rather, they may utilize different standards of responsible feeding that derive from their ethnocultural heritage, such as emphasizing the importance of educating children to eat in ways that reflect traditional food practices as well as traditions of oral communication (Caplan, 1997;Ristovski-Slijepcevic et al, 2008). Their feeding approaches may also reflect a tension they feel between promoting dietary traditions while facilitating children's sense of belonging in a new country (Bowen et al, 2019).…”

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Unequal foodwork: Situating the sociology of feeding within diet and nutrition disparities

Fielding‐Singh

Oleschuk

2023

Sociology Compass

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Widespread inequities in diet and nutrition present a pressing public health problem. Sociologists working to illuminate the causes and contours of these inequities often center the role of family foodwork, or the multifaceted domestic labor that supports eating, including planning and preparing meals. Mounting sociological scholarship on foodwork considers how food's meanings are socially patterned to reflect broader social structures, ideologies and institutions that influence their manifestation and families' resources to enact them. Here, we present three core contributions from the sociology of foodwork that can advance essential transdisciplinary conversations around nutrition disparities as well as efforts to tackle these disparities. We lay out how (1) family foodwork is historically rooted in broader structures of capitalist exploitation and women's subordination, and today remains gendered through normative discourses equating “good” feeding with “good” mothering; (2) the moralization of foodwork is buttressed by an ideological context idealizing homecooked meals and lamenting foodwork's decline, and; (3) foodwork—and societal evaluations of it—are shaped and stratified by intersecting gendered, classed, and racial inequalities. After reviewing each contribution and its importance for addressing nutrition inequities, we conclude by advocating for a closer conversation across disciplines and highlighting important future directions for sociologists.

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“…Indeed, a growing literature on maternal foodwork foregrounds the complex emotions that mothers experience around intensive feeding, including feelings of guilt and anxiety (Bowen et al, 2019;Brenton, 2017;Cairns et al, 2013;Elliott & Bowen, 2018;MacKendrick, 2018;MacKendrick & Pristavec, 2019;Oleschuk, 2020). Elliott and Bowen (2018) document lowincome mothers' feelings of guilt and shame amidst moralistic framings around feeding and mothers' experiences of surveillance.…”

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The emotional management of motherhood: Foodwork, maternal guilt, and emotion work

Fielding‐Singh

Cooper

2022

J of Marriage and Family

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This study examined how college-educated mothers emotionally manage the guilt they experience as they perform maternal foodwork. Background: Maternal guilt is prevalent in the United States, as most mothers report feeling guilty about their inability to live up to the high standards set by intensive mothering. While research has shown that guilt pervades mothers' experiences, less focus has been paid to what mothers do about the guilt they feel. With a focus on maternal foodwork, this study investigated how college-educated mothers emotionally manage the recurring feelings of guilt that arise due the pressures and expectations around feeding children.Method: Using in-depth interviews with 35 collegeeducated mothers in the San Francisco Bay Area, this article examined mothers' emotional management of guilt. Data were analyzed using qualitative content analysis. Results: Mothers experienced guilt as they perceived themselves to be falling short of intensive mothering's ideals around maternal foodwork. In an effort to manage this guilt, mothers employed the gendered and classed emotional management strategy of upscaling, whereby they actively worked on their emotions in ways that paradoxically served to amplify their feelings of guilt and fuel additional physical and cognitive labor. Three approaches were central to upscaling: raising the bar, seeking control, and leveraging social comparison. All of these approaches relied on mothers' ongoing surveillance of themselves and others. Conclusion:The findings show how mothers' emotional management strategies are key to the maintenance of intensive mothering ideals over time, with consequences for the reproduction of gender inequality.

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Development and implementation of a community health centre-based cooking skills intervention in Detroit, MI

Development and implementation of a community health centre-based cooking skills intervention in Detroit, MI

Unequal foodwork: Situating the sociology of feeding within diet and nutrition disparities

The emotional management of motherhood: Foodwork, maternal guilt, and emotion work

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