Best Researchers affiliated to SOAS Food Studies Centre Podcasts (2024)

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Ep 5. Food and the construction of value - the view from Morocco and Croatia 29:51

6+ y ago29:51

29:51

What is good food: A conversation about food and the construction of value - with stories from Morocco and Croatia.Katharina Graf is a postdoctoral research fellow at the SOAS Food Studies Centre, University of London. Her research interests pertain to the preparation of food, material and social change, gender, urban space, food security, risk and…

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Clip: People expect good food to be affordable as well as not containing any additives (ep 4) 1:13

6+ y ago1:13

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"For example the produce that my farmers sell at the farmers' markets can be up to seven and a half times more expensive than conventional produce... 500 grams of spinach at a convention market in China is 20 pence whereas the same 500 grams of organic spinach at a farmers' market is £1.50. People that complain about how expensive that food is expe…

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Clip: MSG - from a symbol of culture and civilisation to "Chinese Restaurant Syndrome" (ep 4) 1:39

6+ y ago1:39

1:39

"In Taiwan, MSG has been widely used as a flavour enhancing food additives and in the 1980s and 1990s, nutritional scientists appealed to the public to reduce their consumption of MGS and claimed it caused cancers and allergies and all these diseases - the most famous ones was Chinese Restaurant Syndrome. And this came from a letter published in a …

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Ep 4: Good food is 'real food' 22:43

6+ y ago22:43

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What is good food: A conversation about 'real food' in and around farmers markets in Shanghai and in food education in Taiwan. Leo Pang is a PhD candidate at the SOAS Food Studies Centre. His research is on small organic farmers, farmers’ markets and the farmers’ market organisers in Shanghai. In his thesis Leo examines the issues facing farmers in…

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Clip: Uncorrupted, unadulterated, 'good' food is not an everyday reality (ep 3) 0:30

6+ y ago0:30

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"One of my main interlocutors is an older lady called Fupu, and she suggests that these agrochemicals have made the environment toxic, and that all food today is 'bhejal'. So actually in my research I look at the opposite of good food, through that of 'bhejal' food. While good food is maybe the norm, it is the corrupted, adulterated, impure foods t…

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Clip: People have described it as a meatier taste, a gamier taste (ep 3) 0:42

6+ y ago0:42

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"Ruminants that are raised on grasslands, because they are using more of their muscles, those muscles develop a deeper flavour, because they are consuming a wider variety of grasses. The flavour is also complex. The 'terrior' of their landscape you could say, is indeed translated into the flavour of that meat giving it a - people have described it …

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Ep 3:"Tastes like a piece of heaven". Farming, and ecological and moral science 29:54

6+ y ago29:54

29:54

What is good food? A conversation about farming and ways of knowing in the US and BangladeshMegan, a PhD researcher at the University of Exeter and programme director at Glynwood considers the challenges in developing a sustainable local food system in and around New York and in contemporary America. Camelia, an anthropologist, environmentalist and…

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Clip: “Good food” and “good parenting” idealise a white middle class model of family nutrition(ep 2) 1:22

6+ y ago1:22

1:22

"Ultimately I’m looking at food and parenting or “good food” and “good parenting” are used to promote what I think is a white middle class model of family and nutrition which unfortunately often is not achievable for the people to whom these messages are promoted.... I argue that this idea of good food is inherently moral and it’s interesting that …

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Clip: We may have solved hunger in some cases but we haven't solved hidden hunger (ep 2) 0:57

6+ y ago0:57

0:57

"A simple way of thinking about this would be the food subsidies that governments provide and which crops the food subsidies are provided for. In most developing countries what happens is the focus has been on staple food grains; maize, wheat and rice, which is brilliant because the problem of hunger has been, we’ve been trying to solve it for a wh…

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Clip: [How do] you eat in such a way that you are propagating good relations with deities (ep 1) 0:47

6+ y ago0:47

0:47

"In the late 19th Century The British government began a project whereby they started recording oral histories because they were assuming that once the Gold Coast was turned into a colony that it would begin to lose its culture.It really hadn’t happened but in any case there’s lots of oral histories that come out of that and I discovered that eatin…

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Clip: Transnationalism effects the way we store our past in our recipes (ep 1) 0:39

6+ y ago0:39

0:39

"Society over the last few centuries is a society that’s moved continents.. [so]..how does this transnationalism affect the way we store our past, in our recipes, in our everyday meals, in our special meals?And so that’s why I think it’s really important to understand what we mean by good food especially when we have to take into account every food…

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Ep 2: Governments, markets, men, women, children - who decides which food is good? 28:51

6+ y ago28:51

28:51

What is good food? A conversation about food decisions made by governments, the market, in the household and among childrenFrancesca, a PhD researcher in anthropology, affiliated to SOAS and the Thomas Coram Research Unit at UCL’s Institute of Education reflects on her fieldwork among young children in care and at home in London. Mehroosh, who has …

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Ep 1: Is the past tasty? Food history and heritage in Macau and Ghana 25:23

6+ y ago25:23

25:23

What is good food? A conversation about food and the past in Macau and Ghana. Mukta, a researcher in the anthropology of food at the SOAS Food Studies Centre reflects on the work of chefs involved in gaining UNESCO recognition for Macanese cooking. Brandi, a researcher in history also at SOAS shares stories of the morals of cooking in the Gold Coas…

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Researchers Affiliated To SOAS Food Studies Centre Podcasts

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What is Good Food?

Researchers affiliated to SOAS Food Studies Centre and partners

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Ep 5. Food and the construction of value - the view from Morocco and Croatia 29:51

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Clip: People expect good food to be affordable as well as not containing any additives (ep 4) 1:13

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Clip: MSG - from a symbol of culture and civilisation to "Chinese Restaurant Syndrome" (ep 4) 1:39

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Ep 4: Good food is 'real food' 22:43

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Clip: Uncorrupted, unadulterated, 'good' food is not an everyday reality (ep 3) 0:30

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Clip: People have described it as a meatier taste, a gamier taste (ep 3) 0:42

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Ep 3:"Tastes like a piece of heaven". Farming, and ecological and moral science 29:54

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Clip: “Good food” and “good parenting” idealise a white middle class model of family nutrition(ep 2) 1:22

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Clip: We may have solved hunger in some cases but we haven't solved hidden hunger (ep 2) 0:57

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Clip: [How do] you eat in such a way that you are propagating good relations with deities (ep 1) 0:47

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Clip: Transnationalism effects the way we store our past in our recipes (ep 1) 0:39

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Ep 2: Governments, markets, men, women, children - who decides which food is good? 28:51

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Ep 1: Is the past tasty? Food history and heritage in Macau and Ghana 25:23

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