British Food Journal: Volume 106 Issue 4

Children's views of cooking and food preparation

Martin Caraher, Heidi Baker, Maureen Burns

A series of consultations with eight‐ and nine‐year‐old children in three schools in England and Wales are set out. The aim of the consultation was to determine how children view…

Confident, fearful and hopeless cooks: Findings from the development of a food‐skills initiative

Martine Stead, Martin Caraher, Wendy Wrieden, Patricia Longbottom, Karen Valentine, Annie Anderson

One of the many barriers to a healthier diet in low‐income communities is a presumed lack of practical food skills. This article reports findings from exploratory qualitative…

A conjoint analysis of Irish consumer preferences for farmhouse cheese

Maurice Murphy, Cathal Cowan, Hilary Meehan, Seamus O’Reilly

The ideal farmhouse cheese profile for 256 Irish farmhouse cheese consumers was one with a strong flavour, a hard texture, a wax packaged wheel, made with pasteurised milk…

Irish consumers’ perception of food safety risk in minced beef

Denise Mahon, Cathal Cowan

Understanding consumer perception of risk and how it affects behaviour is a key issue for both consumers and the food industry. This paper aims to assess the food safety risks…

Meat consumption and meat avoidance among young people: An 11‐year longitudinal study

Alan Beardsworth, Alan Bryman

This paper reports the findings of an 11‐year longitudinal study of the food preferences of first‐year social science undergraduates at a UK university. Argues that this…

A case study of local food and its routes to market in the UK

Peter Jones, Daphne Comfort, David Hillier

Consumers within the UK have access to a wide variety of international foodstuffs and cuisines but there is also a growing interest in local food. This case study explores what is…

The European Food Safety Authority: Towards coherence in food safety policy and practice

Peter Shears, Frances E. Zollers, Sandra N. Hurd

There have been several “food scares” in Europe and across the Atlantic in recent years. They have led to nationally orientated reaction – often in the face of otherwise…