British Food Journal: Volume 100 Issue 3

Competing agendas in infant feeding

Elizabeth Murphy, Susan Parker, Christine Phipps

Many food choices are not centrally concerned with food and, even where they are, they do not necessarily relate to the nutritional functions of food. In this paper we report on…

The way to healthy eating for children

Pauline J. Horne, C. Fergus Lowe, Michael Bowdery, Christine Egerton

There is widespread concern that children consume too few fruit and vegetables and as a result are likely to incur health problems. This paper outlines a series of studies in…

Chapatis and chips: encountering food use in primary school settings

Robert G. Burgess, Marlene Morrison

This article focuses on a case study of food and eating practices in a co‐educational, multi‐ethnic primary school. It illustrates discrepancies between the formal curriculum for…

Eating out and the commercialisation of mental life

Alan Warde, Lydia Martens

This paper reflects on a sociological study of eating out in the UK. After a brief résumé of the study and its main empirical findings it addresses questions about the…

PPG6 and the contemporary UK food store development dynamic

Neil Wrigley

Tightened UK land‐use planning regulation governing retail development, specifically the 1993 and 1996 revisions of the Department of the Environment’s PPG6 Town Centres and…

Biographies and geographies: consumer understandings of the origins of foods

Ian Cook, Philip Crang, Mark Thorpe

This article argues for a biographical and geographical understanding of foods and food choice. It suggests that such an approach highlights one of the most compelling…