ABSTRACT
Food practices are related in fascinating and complex ways to masculinity norms. This overview of the social sciences and humanities literature from the Global North reveals four key food behaviours that have been framed as ‘masculine’ in this region in the late 20th and early 21st centuries: meat eating, unhealthy eating, being the recipient of domestic cooking and professional cooking. The chapter also speaks to exceptions to these norms, as well as the ways in which the norms vary across social location such as class, nationality, religion and parental status.
