ABSTRACT
Food has come under scrutiny from anthropologists and sociologists (for example: Lévi-Strauss 1964; Douglas 1984; Murcott 1982, 1983a, 1983b, 1993; Mennell 1985; Mennell, Murcott and van Otterloo 1992; Lupton 1996; Charles and Kerr 1986, 1988; Beardsworth and Keil 1990, 1997; and James 1990, 1993) and more recently geographers too (for example: Cook 1995, Cook and Crang 1996, Bell and Valentine 1997, Valentine 1998a , 1998b, 1999). Within this body of work, research has emphasised the cultural relationships through which foodstuffs are constituted as social forms, the role of food in the reproduction of domestic social relationships and food as an example of the objectification of the relationship between different social groups and societies.
