Kitchen Research Unit (KRU)

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The Kitchen Research Unit (KRU) focuses on transdisciplinary scholarship and practice research expertise around food, taste, eating and cooking. KRU draws on various traditions in sociology, geography, anthropology, art and Science and Technology Studies to analyse food practices, both at home, within communities and in professional fields, such as restaurants and industry, and brings them together with practice research. It is one of the research units at Goldsmiths, University of London, and is based in the Department of Sociology.

KRU engages food as a material and political issue, and the unit is interested in a wide range of topics, practices and cultures: taste, recipes, cooking methods and cookbooks; alternative and sustainable food systems; foraging practices and cultures; food technologies; practices and processes of fermentation; food, communities, urban spaces and regeneration; food traditions, indigenous knowledges and food sovereignty; multicultural and multifaith practices of solidarity through food; food and media cultures; and food, health and wellbeing.

The KRU engages with local communities and aims to use food from local providers, as well as connect with local groups that promote food justice. It hosts visiting scholars, and it collaborates with the Goldsmiths Allotment, and the Art Garden and Laboratory, a research centre that grows and analyses food.

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Goldsmiths, University of London
London