Routledge Savoring Alternative Food: School Gardens & Social Difference

This Routledge academic text examines the alternative food movement through critical lenses of social difference, including class, race, gender, and age. The author challenges the common assertion that food serves as universal common ground, revealing how this narrative has often promoted sameness over difference whilst obscuring structural inequalities. By analysing specific school garden initiatives and healthy eating programmes, the book exposes contradictions within alternative food activism and questions whether solidarity rhetoric adequately addresses the needs of marginalised communities. Part of the Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment series, this work offers essential reading for scholars, educators, and activists seeking to understand how food systems intersect with social justice, identity, and power dynamics in contemporary society.