Food dominates our broadcast and print media, chefs achieve celebrity status, the restaurant sector is burgeoning and almost every town seems to have its own food festival.  Does this reflect a widespread and positive transformation in our relationship with food? Or, in reality, does it reinforce divisions between those who have achieved an ‘ideal’ lifestyle and those for whom this will never be an option.  Join Joanna Blythman, Gerard Baker and Donald Sloan to discuss Britain’s complex relationship with food.

Blythman is an award-winning investigative journalist, the author of five landmark books on food issues and an authority on the British food chain. Baker, a chef, food writer and broadcaster, has recently reworked a culinary classic – Mrs Beeton: 220 Recipes Updated for the Modern Cook. Sloan is head of the Oxford School of Hospitality Management at Oxford Brookes University and chair of Oxford Gastronomica.

This session is part of a series presented by Oxford Gastronomica, Oxford Brookes University’s centre for the study of food, drink and culture.