ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book discusses applies the concept of food pedagogies to analyse the proliferation of teaching and learning about food, the diversification of food educational processes, the rise of new food pedagogues and the shift in expertise and knowledge about food. Food pedagogies entail significant and asymmetrical relations of power, authority and expertise. Although the term pedagogy is rarely used as an analytic, this work provides us with detailed empirical studies of food learning and food expertise across a range of media. Food pedagogies are important not only because they are proliferating but because of the social, cultural and symbolic meanings of food and good lives; which they reproduce. Food pedagogies offer us hope that we can learn so much: about the other, about our selves, our food producers, and the animals and plants which are our food.
