Food &

Mothers

The cooking and serving of food are embedded in a discursive framework that defines female care, a vital element in the maintenance of family relatedness and proper femaleness. Female food-related work, properly performed, appears to act as a key centripetal force in family life." - Haukanes, 2007.

Volunteering Mothers: Engaging the Crisis in a Soup Kitchen of Northern Greece

For an ethnographer, a study of food within a particular population would not start and end with looking at what people ate. Rather, an ethnography focused upon food would remain open to being surprised at what food meant to the people in question, and would be interested in any aspect of their living arrangements, their routines and rituals, their relationships, and their identities that influenced or was influenced by their practices around food and the meaning invested in them. We would not simply assume that external influences such as “government policy” or “gender structures” shaped practices in relation to food, but would be alert to situations in which such structures were brought into being by participants as motivations or explanations. The connections which the ethnographer would follow could only really be derived by being a part of the setting over a prolonged period of time and finding out what went on there.
- Christine Hine

Ethnography after humanism: power, politics and method in multi-species research.

https://www.vlebooks.com/Product/Index/959826?page=0

https://www.gingerbread.org.uk/

https://fareshare.org.uk/marcus-rashford/

https://cookingonabootstrap.com/

https://www.henry.org.uk/

Kids In The Kitchen

Why We Cook? Women on food.

4. Write a short reflection on one or some of the meals you usually cook for your child/children.
Mealtime success for me is when all three of us eat the same meal. A popular choice is a lasagne (from a shop) with cucumber (peeled for my daughter, unpeeled for my son and self).I choose this because if I am working from home I can oven cook it before leaving for child collecting without disturbing my work. I can turn off the oven before I leave so that it is tepid when I get home (children prefer cold food).I choose lasagne as it is the only savoury wet food that my son will eat. Therefore, I aim to have it weekly to ensure that he will eat other wet textured food. He will eat several different brands of Thai product.
I choose lasagne as it contains additional vegetables and some dairy. It also has scope for being home made with quorn/lentils on a non-working day. It's also a good familiar to friends or family and so that if we need to eat elsewhere I know there is something that I can suggest that is inexpensive and they will eat. I prepare the cucumber when I get home, sometimes my daughter helps. This also adds to their vegetable intake. It is cool and crunchy and I hope that from this they might be willing to try another vegetable.The children are permitted one glass of apple juice per day (with food, to reduce tooth decay). There is usually a pudding eg tinned pineapple as they both like it and it increases their fibre/vitamin intake for the day. It is also easy to prepare especially compared to a real pineapple and has no waste (of food and packaging is recycled).

Between Art and Anthropology
Contemporary Ethnographic Practice.

Art and Agency An Anthropological Theory.
Alfred Gell

Collaborative art and the emergence and
development of ethnographic knowledge and
empathy

"I don't think I can join with what you're doing, I SO want too, its amazing but my mum was a nurse and a single mum, so food and dinners when I was growing up was quick, cheap and designed to fill our bellies as much as possible in the shortest amount of time. She didn't teach me to cook anything. I have no knowledge of being in a kitchen with her.
But the spaghetti bolognaise I learnt from friends when I travelled Australia for 2 years, and the Chilli I cook was a recipe from one of my oldest mates."
SF

1. What comes to mind, food & mothers? Note down 5 Keywords.

Nutrition
Patience
Love
Growth
Exploring
regards

2. In the recipe's theme/format, write the ‘ingredients’ as a mother providing food for your children.
Recipe for a meal

Ingredients:
* Vitamins
* Calcium
* Fibre
* Good fats
* Minimal sugar

You will need:
* Clean environment
* Patience
* Perseverance
* Budget-conscious
* Fresh food
* Imagination
* Research (Pinterest & tiktok)
* Sneakiness
* Blender for veggie hiding

Preparing my Mother’s Day meal