Schools, Space and Culinary Capital

This book introduces the notion of culinary capital to investigate socialisation and school mealtime experiences in an academy school based in the UK.

Drawing on interviews collated from children, teachers and staff within the school, the text sheds light on food insecurity in society and schools as being major issue in educational policy. The book examines schools as a microcosm for society with school food space being the playground for socialisation. It shows how forms of culinary capita...