Publications by authors named "Nevena Nancheva"
Article Synopsis
- The Covid-19 pandemic has heightened the demand for food support and led to the rise of social supermarkets (SSM), which provide low-cost products while minimizing stigma and food waste.
- Data was collected from 111 members through questionnaires and 25 interviews at two Sussex SSM locations, revealing that participants valued the social, economic, and nutritional benefits of these supermarkets.
- While SSMs enhanced food choice and social interaction, challenges such as limited food availability and barriers to healthy eating, especially among younger members, were identified, highlighting the need for consistent food supply and ongoing stigma reduction.
Based on interviews and surveys of Bulgarians living in the UK, the article explores the changing nature of Bulgarian foodways in the UK. Using banitsa, a 'traditional' Bulgarian breakfast dish, as the starting point for the research, the article examines the relationships Bulgarians in the UK have with their host and home communities as well as with their national identity and sense of belonging and the effect these have on their foodways and food consumption. The main claim the article makes is that the context of migration and of being a migrant engenders a deliberate attempt to foster and maintain an identity that is most often expressed in national terms, and most immediately performed in the everyday through food.
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