Table of Contents

1 Introduction

Jonatan Leer and Karen Klitgaard Povlsen

Part One: Food Practices in the Media

2 Good Fare and Welfare: Perceptions of American and French Food in Postwar Cookbooks Caroline Nyvang

3 Transcultural Food and Recipes for Immigration Susanna Moodie and Cathrine Parr Traill (Vera Alexander)

4 Just A Happy Housewife? Michelle Obama, Food Activism and (African-)American Womanhood Katrine Meldgaard Kjær

5 ‘The Worst Mum in Britain’: Class, Gender and Caring in the Campaigning Culinary Documentary Joanne Hollows

6 Manning the Table: Masculinity and Weight Loss in U.S. Commercials

Fabio Parasecoli

7 Homosocial Heterotopias and Masculine Escapism in TV-Cooking Shows

Jonathan Leer

Part Two: Practices of Food and Media

8 ‘I (Never) Just Google’: Media and Food Practices Karen Klitgaard Povlsen

9 Everyday Mothering and the Media Food ‘Soup’: Comparing Contested Food and Mothering Across Genres in Two Different Social Contexts Bente Halkier

10 Food Across Media: Popular Food Contents among Children in Germany

Susanne Eichner

11 Children Cooking Media Food: Exploring Media (Food) Literacy Through Experimental Methods Stinne Gunder Strøm Krogager

12 Epilogue: Politics and the Future of Food and Media

Kathleen LeBesco and Peter Naccarato

About the Author

Jonatan Leer is a Postdoc in the Department of Education, Aarhus University, Denmark. Karen Klitgaard Povlsen is Associate Professor in School of Culture and Communication: Media Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark.