Author Archives: Ana Tominc

Tominc, Ana (2024): Book review of Buscemi, Francesco: Pasta, Pizza and Propaganda. A Political History of Italian Food TV, Journal of Italian Film and Media. Tominc, Ana (2022): Food and Cooking on Early Television in Europe: An Introduction, in Food and Cooking on Early Television in Europe: Impact on Postwar Foodways, edited by A. Tominc.ContinueContinue reading “History of Food Television”

National Identity Ana Tominc, Ashli Stokes and Maryam Ishaq (forthcoming): Communicating Scotland through Food. From Devolution to Possible Futures. Peter Lang. Knight, Christine and Ana Tominc (2024): The travelogue cooking show in a sub-state nation: Representing Scotland in British food television. European Journal of Cultural Studies, Volume 27, Issue 5. Tominc, Ana (2023): Between theContinueContinue reading “Mediating Politics and Food: Nationalism, Populism, Identity”

Scholars from a variety of disciplines increasingly investigate how food and foodways, or what we eat, what it means, and why it matters, influence public understanding of culture and society. Communication scholars have much to add to this interdisciplinary conversation since their research attends to food’s communicative elements, including the role of persuasion, symbols, andContinueContinue reading “Communicating Scotland Through Food: From Devolution to Possible Futures”

This topic is part of the project on Brexit, regulation and food, supported by the Carnegie Trust (2020). Mary Irwin, who specialises in comedy, and I explored how the EU-related regulation was reported in the British media using humour. Here is our presentation “Cripes! It’s Boris, Bangers and Bendy Bananas: Laughing our way to aContinueContinue reading “Regulation as entertainment”

Tominc, Ana (2025): Living Language in Between: Slovene, English and the Pain of Imperfection. Title TBC. Edited by Agnieszka Rydzik and Maria Gebbels. Routledge. Tominc, Ana (2016): Slovenia, in At the Table: Food and Family Around the World, edited by K. Albala. Greenwood Press, 261–268. Tominc, Ana (2015): Book Review Frye & Bruner (eds), TheContinueContinue reading “Discourse, Theory, Food”

Download here “Food and Cooking on early television in Europe: An introduction” from the edited collection Food and Cooking on early television in Europe (edited by A Tominc, Routledge 2022). tominc-2022_chapter-1_introDownload

Food and Cooking on Early Television in Europe collects ten original essays that make a strong overall contribution to television histories. The landscapes of TV cookery and food programming in eight European countries from the 1940s until the late 1960s are mapped and juxtaposed. Contributors explore significant questions around the relationships between public and domestic spheres,ContinueContinue reading “Praise for the book”

“Bendy Banana” is part of the project on Brexit, regulation and food, supported by the Carnegie Trust (2020). When Mary Irwin, who worked on this project with me, and I started working on this project, we realized that banana regulation, which the EU introduced in 1994, is one of the most visible, while at theContinueContinue reading “Bendy Banana”

In this project, Nikki Welch and I explore wine advice columns by the British wine critic Jane MacQuitty in The Saturday Times in the last four decades. We observe how MacQuitty describes and recommends wines, focusing especially on description of wine taste, provenance and food matching. We argue that describing wine taste using everyday expressionsContinueContinue reading “Wine Advice Columns between Distinction and Democratization”

“In critical discourse studies there remains a lack of attention to how power, ideology and class relations are communicated and reproduced at the level of popular culture. Through a beautifully contextualised study in Slovenia, this book takes an important step to address this, showing just how much can be revealed through the case of cookbooksContinueContinue reading “Book Reviews”