ABSTRACT
Introduction Food, food use and eating have become the focus of growing national and international interest. Our study aims to advance understandings about the complex issues that underlie food choices as they are understood and mediated through the practice of schooling (Burgess and Morrison 1995) and to develop a distinctive ethnographic approach to studies of food and eating that draws on expertise more usually applied to other areas of sociological enquiry. It is at the meeting-point of sociological and educational interests in food choice that our project is framed. Issues associated with food choice are central to our re search interests in the processes of teaching and learning about food and eating.
