Often when we think of learning about food and eating, two primary locations come to mind: home and school. Indeed, here in the UK, a food education charity, TastEd, recently won a BBC Food and Farming award for their innovative approaches to food education in English primary schools. Writers like Michael Pollen and Alice Waters have long expounded on the importance of the “table” as a tool for civilization. But are these two spaces really the only ones where we learn about food? In an age of mass media, public health campaigns, television cookery shows, and social media influencers, our food education comes from a plethora of sources, some accurate, others less so. In the edited volume Food Information, Communication and Education, various scholars consider the ways in which knowledge about food is communicated and, in turn, how this knowledge is then “accepted, interpreted, adapted or contested” (p. 1)...

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