Understanding Eating Events: Snacks and Meal Patterns in Great Britain.
Sociological analysis of eating has for a long time tracked the fate of a popularly endorsed, idealized form of the “family” or “proper” meal. “Snacking” has often been constructed as its symbolic opposite, as irregular, anomic and unhealthy. This paper, based on data from a survey of eating pattern...
| Publicado en: | Food, Culture & Society Vol. 20; no. 1; pp. 15 - 37 |
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