Why traditional cooking isnāt always healthier: the case of Ghanaians in Manchester and in Accra
In popular discussions of healthy eating, including political rhetoric and nutrition counselling, women are often blamed for a lack of nutrition knowledge or cooking skills, leading to the assumption that aĀ decline in cooking skills is connected with unhealthy diets and obesity. This has been called aĀ ādeficit approachāĀ and my research with Ghanaian women set out toĀ challenge some of its assumptions.