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Sinikka Elliott

The insistence on home-cooked family meals doing more damage than good, says sociologist

CBC Radio spoke to Sinikka Elliott, a professor of sociology at UBC, about the pressure of providing home-cooked family meals.

Apr 15, 2019

Raising children under suspicion and criminalization

The National Post published an op-ed by Sinikka Elliott, a sociology professor at UBC, about challenges facing low income and black mothers. The piece first appeared in The Conversation.

Apr 2, 2019

Raising children under suspicion and criminalization

The Conversation published an op-ed by Sinikka Elliott, a professor of sociology at UBC, about the difficulties of raising children under a veil of suspicion.

Apr 1, 2019

Hell’s kitchen? Home-cooked family meals hardly a comfort, new book argues

CBC published an article about a new book on family cooking by Sinikka Elliott, a professor of sociology at UBC.

Mar 18, 2019

Stop pressuring families to cook homemade meals: UBC sociologist

Huffington Post quoted UBC sociologist Sinikka Elliott in an article about unrealistic expectations of home cooking. Elliott has documented her research into the challenges families face in feeding their families in […]

Mar 14, 2019

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Home cooking and family meals are challenges, not solutions

Prominent food gurus recommend that we cook from scratch and gather our families around the table each night. But knowing what’s good for us doesn’t necessarily mean we can do it.

Mar 11, 2019

The problems that home cooking can’t solve

Sinikka Elliott, a professor of sociology at UBC, was interviewed in The Atlantic about a book she co-wrote on home cooking.

Mar 1, 2019

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