ABSTRACT
Whilst modern families are changing, and ‘time together’ may be declining, one of the important remaining areas of family practices is mealtimes. Burgoyne and Clark have argued that ‘The mundane tasks of cooking, eating and clearing up —such central activities within any domestic regime-are curiously absent from existing sociological descriptions of family life’ (1985, p. 152). Some recent work suggests that many families now eat in stages with different family members eating different things at different times.
