Research Catalog

Title

Celebrity chefs, food media and the politics of eating / Joanne Hollows.

Author

Hollows, Joanne

Publication

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.

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Details

Description

216 pages : illustrations (black and white); 24 cm.

Summary

Working across food studies and media studies, Joanne Hollows examines the impact of celebrity chefs on how we think about food and how we cook, shop and eat. Hollows explores how celebrity chefs emerged in both restaurant and media industries, making chefs like Jamie Oliver and Gordon Ramsay into global stars. She also shows how blogs and YouTube enabled the emergence of new types of branded food personalities such as Deliciously Ella and BOSH! As well as providing a valuable introduction to existing research on celebrity chefs, Hollows uses case studies to analyse how celebrity chefs shape food practices and wider social, political and cultural trends. Hollows explores their impact on ideas about veganism, healthy eating and the Covid-19 pandemic and how their advice is bound up with class, gender and race. She also demonstrates how celebrity chefs such as Jamie Oliver, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Nadiya Hussain and Jack Monroe have become food activists and campaigners who intervene in contemporary debates about the environment, food poverty and nation.

Series Statement

Contemporary food studies: economy, culture and politics

Uniform Title

Contemporary food studies: economy, culture and politics.

Subject

• Food on television
• Celebrity chefs
• Food in mass media
• Food > Political aspects
• Food > Social aspects

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages [177]-208) and index.

Contents

Introduction -- Celebrity Chefs, Restaurant Industries and the Culinary Field -- Celebrity Chefs and the Media Industries -- Food, Health and the Feminine Body -- Veganizing Masculinities -- Food Heroes, Food Politics and the Campaigning Culinary Documentary -- Eat Well for Less: Celebrity Chefs and Austerity Culture -- Celebrity Chefs, Food and Nation -- Celebrity Chefs and British Food Culture in the Times of Brexit and Covid-19.

Call Number

MWGS 22-4448

ISBN

• 1350145726
• 9781350145726

OCLC

1260819214

Author

Hollows, Joanne, author.

Title

Celebrity chefs, food media and the politics of eating / Joanne Hollows.

Publisher

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Contemporary food studies: economy, culture and politics

Contemporary food studies: economy, culture and politics.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages [177]-208) and index.

Other Form:

ebook version : 9781350145696

Research Call Number

MWGS 22-4448