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Tag: Mary Berry

  • Mary Berry Doffs Her Bonnet – and Legitimates the Class Structure (Again)

    I’ve blogged about how Mary Berry’s uses her middle class cultural capital to maintain the class-order through demonising working class taste , but in her latest series of outings – Mary Berry’s Country House Secrets, she takes this to another level… I could only stomach one episode, which I watched to confirm my suspicions about…

  • Mary Berry’s Cultural Capital and Gregg Wallace’s Love of Sociology

    Mary Berry’s recent comments against deep fat fryers and Jaffa cake dunking could be interpreted (using Bourdieu) as an example of the unconscious process through which the middle classes assert and maintain their superiority by defining working class practices as ‘bad taste’ and ‘unhealthy’. Gregg Wallace picked up on this with his comments about Berry’s attack…