Food Essais Possible Sections

1. E Numbers - Sixties space food ambition, the evils of processed food and it's return in Molecular Gastronomy.

1.1. Analogies with modernist things such as brutalism and modernist design generally (space age - futuristic)

1.2. Hydrocolloids - old school hydrocolloids such as agar-agar and gelatin versus new school hydrocolloids such as methylcellulose.

1.3. Good Housekeeping Colour Cookery/Cordon Bleu culture.

1.4. The health myth of e-numbers - valium, the 80s and the beginnings of the health halo

2. The Good Housekeeping of England and Cordon Bleu and similarities with food in West Germany and the growing ideas of feminism being co-opted into the new model of the housewife as a kind of scientific engineer rather the image of housewife as skilled handicraft maker of preserved winter foods in a shawl.

2.1. Related to the engineering concept - the engineering of bras 'cross your heart' bras and a 'visible panty line' were these concerns before this period. Again an extension of the smooth streamlined engineering metaphor.

2.2. Ostalgie

2.2.1. Ostalgie

2.3. 'Eat yourself Beautiful' from a German magazine. 'Eat y'self fitter' The Fall.

2.3.1. Ostalgie.

3. The image of science.

3.1. Plastics and artificial materials

4. Ostalgie.

5. Dean Reed Communist Cowboy.

6. Metaphors of the fifties and sixties from The Space Race and also legacy of technology (see space-race wiki).