'A proper Dinner'
In researching the attitudes of 11 to 12-year-old rural children and their families, we have found that a potent symbol of domestic wellbeing remains "the proper dinner". Our data, drawn from ten...
In researching the attitudes of 11 to 12-year-old rural children and their families, we have found that a potent symbol of domestic wellbeing remains "the proper dinner". Our data, drawn from ten...
Women's magazines have long been preoccupied with food - and have taken for granted that it is women who usually provide it. With human nutritionist Margo Barker, I have been examining the food...
Common consensus in academia and beyond is that it is mainly women who take responsibility for shopping, cooking and serving family meals. However, the research that supports this contention was...
When I was pregnant, 34 years ago, I craved, and ate, blue cheese and chocolate. By the age of three months, my daughter happily consumed mashed banana, boiled eggs and honey. "See if she likes them...
In recent debates, the Government and the media have depicted the family meal as a historic tradition central to society's cohesion and wellbeing. Its alleged decline has been linked to communication...
With science at the heart of the country's development, India's research institutes are becoming world-class but its universities are falling behind. Geoff Watts reports. The Presidential Palace is a...
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This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from an advocate of women's rights, who lived out her final years in London but whose ashes are buried in...