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There appears to be an assumption that cooking skills are in decline and that this is having an adverse impact on individual health and well-being, and family wholesomeness. The problematisation of cooking skills is not new, and can be seen in a number of historical developments that have specified particular pedagogies about food and eating. The purpose of this paper is to examine pedagogies on cooking skills and the importance accorded them. The paper drawson Foucault’s work on governmentality. By using examples from the USA, UK and Australia, the paper demonstrates the ways that authoritative discourses on the know how and the know what about  \n618 Savoir Fare  \nfood and cooking – called here ‘savoir fare’ – are developed and promulgated. These discourses, and the moral panics in which they are embedded, require individuals to make choices about what to cook and how to cook, and in doing so establish moral pedagogies concerning good and bad cooking. The development of food literacy programmes, which see cooking skills as life skills, further extends the obligations to ‘cook properly’ to wider populations. The emphasis on cooking knowledge and skills has ushered in new forms of government, firstly, through a relationship between expertise and politics which is readily visible through the authority that underpins the need to develop skills in food provisioning and preparation; secondly, through a new pluralisation of‘social’ technologies which invites a range of private-public interest through, for example, television cooking programmes featuring cooking skills, albeit it set in a particular milieu of entertainment; and lastly, through a new specification of the subject can be seen in the formation of a choosing subject, one which has to problematise food choice in relation to expert advice and guidance. A governmentality focus shows that as discourses develop about what is the correct level of‘savoir fare’, new discursive subject positions are opened up. Armed with the understanding of what is considered expert-endorsed acceptable food knowledge, subjects judge themselves through self-surveillance. The result is a powerful food and family morality that is both disciplined and disciplinary.  \nIntroduction  \nIn his book,The omnivore’s dilemma, Michael Pollan (2007) begins by asking how was it that, almost overnight, the American idea of eating ‘healthily’ was revolutionised? Referring to newspaper stories about the role of high protein, low carbohydrate diets to promote weight loss, Pollan describes how this idea moved rapidly through the US food system, garnering support from experts and industry alike,  \nJohn Coveney, Andrea Begley and Danielle Gallegos 619  \ncreating new markets for so-called ‘low carb’ foods, increasing sales of books based on Dr Atkin’s-style high protein diets. The process also saw a rapid decline in the status of so-called tradition staple foods, like bread, potatoes and pasta, which were now deemed detrimental to health.  \nPollan believes that this development was only possible because a culture, like that of the US, has no food tradition of its own. In other words, when there are no longstanding rules and rituals about what to eat and when to eat it, people’s diets are at the whim of whatever popular discourse is served up whether this be from science, commerce or even journalistic wisdom. In the Australian context, Symons makes the same point when he describes Australian food culture as being industrial cuisine and having “a history withou","cbCaijxXoLP67Nkk","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaijxXoLP67Nkk","pdf",130220,26,"English","# Introduction\n## Cooking skills as moral pedagogies\n## Governmentality and discursive subject positions\n## Expert guidance, self-surveillance, and family morality","[{\"question\":\"What does the paper mean by “savoir fare”?\",\"answer\":\"“Savoir fare” refers to the know-how and know-what discourses about food and cooking that are developed and promoted through authoritative channels.\"},{\"question\":\"How does governmentality explain the moral framing of cooking skills?\",\"answer\":\"A governmentality focus shows that as standards for acceptable savoir fare are defined, new subject positions emerge, leading individuals to judge themselves through self-surveillance.\"},{\"question\":\"Which regions are used as examples to demonstrate these discourses?\",\"answer\":\"The paper uses examples from the USA, UK, and Australia to illustrate how cooking-skills discourse spreads and becomes embedded in moral panics.\"}]","'Savoir Fare': Are cooking skills a new morality? | PDF",1792077354,66]