Browsing by Subject "syöminen"
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(2014)The concern of healthiness reflects the Western idea of food and today's eating habits. Especially women have shown to be the pioneers of a healthy diet. The ideals of eating properly are also gendered. Women are assumed to eat less than men. In Finland, the nutritional recommendations for how to eat properly have excisted for many decades. However, recommendations for a healthy diet are not always followed. Food is not only a daily necessity but it is also a source of pleasure. People enjoy food and they want to bring joy to themselves and to their close ones with it. On weekends there is often more time to cook and enjoy food. The aim of this study is to find out which factors affect women's pleasure eating and how women take and describe this kind of eating. Furthermore, this study aims to find out what kinds of delicacies women enjoy during their Friday nights. The data for this study is from the Finnish Literature Society's Folklore archives Ruokapäiväkirjakeruu Mitä söin tänään? 12 April 2013. The method of this study is qualitative, and the method of analysis is data-driven content analysis. The basis for this study is oral history, and the texts written by women represent narrative style. 42 women from the data form the research group for this study. (n=42) The study showed that the women's perceptions of pleasure eating were contradictory. Pleasure eating was seen as the counterbalance of normal food and it was generally considered unhealthy. Pleasure eating was perceived more positively when the person's diet in general was healthy. On Fridays pleasure eating was more allowed than on other weekdays. Out of all the delicacies the women were eating, chocolate and cheeses were the most popular. Overall the women tried to follow a healthy diet despite the pleasure eating.
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(2018)Objectives: Eating together, commensalism, has lately been a common subject in a public conversation. There are concerns about the disappearance of the habit of eating together. The discussion about disappearing includes also a longing for the past. The phenomenon of eating together has strong meaning nowadays: it was one of the main themes while Finland was celebrating 100 years in 2017. There are only few previous studies about the history of eating together in Finland. The main aim of this study is to find out, how of eating together is changed from the past to nowa- days and how it is seen in present day. Research questions are: · What kind of eating together is has been in Finland´s 100 years of independence? · What kind of experiences older people have about eating together? · How eating together is seen in Finland in the 2010s? Methods: The first dataset was collected through qualitative group interviews from six pen- sioners and the second dataset was collected from newspaper articles. The interviews were audiorecorded and transcribed into written form. The journal data were collected from Helsingin Sanomat between 1.1.2010-31.12.2016. The both datasets, the inter- views and written journal data, were analyzed with the qualitative content analysis. Results and conclusions: Interviewees had only a few memories about eating together in their childhood. Family ate together because it was practical. When interviewers lived family life with their own children they were appreciated family meals and tried to eat together with family. However, work and hobbies challenged the possibilities of eating together. Nowa- days, in older age, interviewees long for eating together. The data from newspaper articles reveals that eating together is comprehended as important, but endangered. Besides the wor- ries, there are new viewpoints, such as relaxing and getting people together to share the common meals. The results followed earlier studies about Finnish eating. Results showed finns appreciate eating together but at the same time they worried about losing it.
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