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What is Good Food?

Researchers affiliated to SOAS Food Studies Centre and partners

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What is Good Food? Five episodes of delicious stories and conversations about how we know what we eat is 'good'. This podcast series is produced by a group of food researchers, and our conversations are based on papers presented at a food research workshop organised by the SOAS Food Studies Centre and University of Warwick Food GRP. Studio production: Anna Cohen Editor: Mukta Das Music: Brandi Simpson Miller
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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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"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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"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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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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"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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"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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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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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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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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