Working my way through hordes of online material I stumbles across a project called: concepts of healthy eating (Lewisham) which was a series of ethnographic studies into the eating habits of inhabitants of Lewisham. A number of research methods were undertaken to amass a range of data sources, such as opened ended interviews, with a range of people and retail outlets, all ages, classes and ethnicities were considered and informants kept 7-day food diaries.
Some of the research methods employed within this study may in fact be advisable to utilise within my own areas of investigation.
The exercise painted an insightful picture into the varied diets of a boroughs diverse inhabitants, all of which were dictated by culture, social implications, finance, health afflictions, time, age, awareness of health information and that imbued by the mass media.
Anyway, the lady who undertook this research is in fact a professor of anthropology at Goldsmiths, it was she who set up the unit at the college. Pat has written extensively on matters relating to food in a number of global contexts so I have decided to make contact with her and run a few of my ideas past her.
http://www.gold.ac.uk/anthropology/staff/pat-caplan/project-uk-phase1/
http://www.gold.ac.uk/anthropology/staff/pat-caplan/food-health-identity/
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