Food and Families in the Making: Knowledge Reproduction and Political Economy of Cooking in Morocco

Even in the context of rapid material and social change in urban Morocco, women, and especially those from low-income households, continue to invest a lot of work in preparing good food for their families. Through the lens of domestic food preparation, this book looks at knowledge reproduction, how we know cooking and its role in the making of everyday family life. It also examines a political economy of cooking that situates Marrakchi women’s lived experiences in the broader context of persisting poverty and food insecurity in Morocco.

Katharina Graf is a research fellow at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnography at Goethe University Frankfurt in Germany. She held her first postdoctoral position at the SOAS Food Studies Centre and has published in journals such as Gastronomica, Food, Culture & Society, the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute and the Journal of North African Studies.