Food legacies: Playing the culinary feminine

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This article explores the role of the a??culinary femininea?? in arts practice and popular culture. Tracing a genealogy of significant British female food personalities and female performance artists working with food, I locate my artistic practice inside the a??gap(s)a?? in between these dual culinary and artistic legacies. British television cook Nigella Lawson and her media image as a domestic goddess is used to examine how representations of food and women are produced and performed in popular culture. I argue that Nigella constructs a??paradoxical femininitiesa?? and exists outside the parameters of traditional women-food boundaries. This article documents my trilogy of performance works that re-appropriated strategies used by Nigella, combining contemporary arts-practice with a popular cultural food aesthetic, through which I trace the gaps that arise in my own food-practices as a woman/artist/consumer.View full textDownload full textKeywordsarts practice, popular culture, femininity, domesticity, domestic goddess, food, celebrity chefs, food media, Nigella LawsonRelated var addthis_config = { ui_cobrand: "Taylor & Francis Online", services_compact: "citeulike,netvibes,twitter,technorati,delicious,linkedin,facebook,stumbleupon,digg,google,more", pubid: "ra-4dff56cd6bb1830b" }; var addthis_config = {"data_track_addressbar":true,"ui_click":true}; Add to shortlist Link Permalink http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0740770X.2011.624803