Chapter published in:
The Discursive Construction of Class and Lifestyle: Celebrity chef cookbooks in post-socialist SloveniaAna Tominc
[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture 75] 2017
► pp. 89–104
Chapter 5Authority, professionalism and nutritionist discourse in two prominent Slovene cookbooks from the 1980s and 1990s
Article outline
- 5.1Topic analysis: An overview of cookbook content
- Ingredients and preparation of food
- Description of dishes, origin and region
- Nutrition and health
- Consumption and manners
- 5.2Social actors – from instruction to “in”/”out” group formation
- 5.2.1Instruction in Slovene: The construction of an in-group
- 5.2.2Construction of “us” vs “them” in cookbooks
- 5.3Constructing scientific objectivity: Describing objects and processes
- 5.3.1 Nutritionist discourse
- 5.4Perspectivation and the invisible expert
- 5.5Conclusion
