Clean eating's surprising normalisation: The case of Nigella Lawson. (June 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Smith, Angela
• Is Part Of: Discourse, context & media. Volume 35(2020)
• Publication Date: 2020-06
• Subjects: Nigella Lawson -- Clean eating -- Normalisation -- Conversationalisation; Discourse analysis -- Periodicals; Digital media -- Periodicals; Mass media and language -- Periodicals; Communication -- Periodicals; Communication; Digital media; Discourse analysis; Mass media and language; Periodicals; 401.4105
• DOI: 10.1016/j.dcm.2020.100376
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2211-6958

Abstract

Abstract: Clean eating as a dietary form of 'good food' has grown in popularity in the last decade. This article explores how it has come to be associated with certain ingredients and a general discourse of wellbeing. Whllst being largely discredited as psuedo-science, many of these ingredients have found their ways into recipes in the cookery books of those who declare a clear opposition to clean eating. In particular, the cookery books of Nigella Lawson will be explored as she states a preference for new ingredients that are typically associated with clean eating.