Cooking and commensality after COVID

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The focus of this essay is the COVID and post-COVID food media output of celebrity chef Jamie Oliver. Through a close reading of his cookbook Together: Memorable Meals Made Easy and its accompanying TV series Jamie Oliver: Together, the essay explores how forms of commensality are mobilized in these food media texts to establish a post-COVID “new normal,” with an emphasis on sharing food as a way of making and banking memories for a still uncertain future. The essay concludes my two-part exploration of cooking and eating together as responses to a crisis, drawing out common issues shared with my earlier essay about commensality after the Grenfell fire in London (Bell 2024).

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Item Type:	Article
Authors/Creators:	Bell, D. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0300-7756
Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information:	Reproduced in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy.
Dates:	Published: 1 November 2024 Published (online): 1 November 2024 Accepted: 30 September 2024
Institution:	The University of Leeds
Academic Units:	The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) > School of Geography (Leeds) > SOG: Cities & Social Justice (Leeds)
Depositing User:	Symplectic Publications
Date Deposited:	10 Oct 2024 15:46
Last Modified:	13 Jan 2025 16:19
Published Version:	https://online.ucpress.edu/gastronomica/article-ab...
Status:	Published
Publisher:	University of California Press
Identification Number:	10.1525/gfc.2024.24.4.58
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID):	oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:218065

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