SAFN Book Reviews
SAFN provides reviews of anthropologically-informed books on the topics of food and nutrition on a regular basis. If there is a book you would like to have reviewed, please send an email to Miriam Chaiken. If you would like to volunteer to review a book, you can also contact Miriam Chaiken.
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Review of
Apple Pie & Enchiladas: Latino Newcomers in the Rural Midwest.
Ann V. Millard & Jorge Chapa.
University of Texas Press. 2004.
Reviewed by Helen Vallianatos
University of Alberta
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Review of
Growing a Garden City
How Farmers, First Graders, Counselors, Troubled Teens, Foodies, a Homeless Shelter Chef, Single Mothers, and More Are Transforming Themselves and Their Neighborhoods Through the Intersection of Local Agriculture and Community–and How You Can, Too
By Jeremy N. Smith
2010
New York: Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
Reviewed by Ellen Messer
Visiting Associate Professor
Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy Tufts University
Lecturer
Boston University Gastronomy Program
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Review of
Fighting for the Future of Food. Activists Versus Agribusiness in the Struggle Over Biotechnology
By Rachel Schurman and William A. Munro
2010
Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press. Number 35 in their Social Movements, Protest, and Contention series.
Reviewed by Ellen Messer
Visiting Associate Professor
Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy Tufts University
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Review of
Feeding the city. From street market to liberal reform in Salvador. Brazil. 1780-1860
By Richard Graham
2010
University of Texas Press
Reviewed By
Esther Katz
Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)
Brasilia, Brazil
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Review of
Cheap Meat: Flap Food Nations in the Pacific Island
By Deborah Gewertz and Frederick Errington
2010
University of California Press
Reviewed By
Amanda S. Green
Oregon State University
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Review of
The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite
By David A. Kessler MD
2009
Rodale Inc.
Reviewed By
Teresa Britton
Department of Philosophy
Eastern Illinois University
Charleston, IL
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Review of
Biotechnology and Agricultural Development. Transgenic Cotton, Rural Institutions, and Resource-Poor Farmers
By Robert Tripp
2009
NY: Routledge
Reviewed by Ellen Messer
Visiting Associate Professor
Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy Tufts University
Lecturer
Boston University Gastronomy Program
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Review of
The McDonaldization of Society 5
By George Ritzer
2008
Los Angeles, CA: Pine Forge Press
(320 pages)
Reviewed by
Melissa L. Caldwell
University of California, Santa Cruz
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Review of
The School Food Revolution: Public Food and the Challenge of Sustainable Development
By Kevin Morgan and Roberta Sonnino
2008
Earthscan Publications, Ltd.
Reviewed by
Sarah E. Cunningham
Department of Anthropology, Oregon State University
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Review of
Glazed America – A History of the Doughnut
By Paul R. Mullins
2008
University of Florida Press
Reviewed by Steven A. Hovan
Department of Geoscience, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Note: The author of this review is not a nutritional anthropologist, but a devoted aficionado of doughnuts, and thus an appropriate candidate for writing this review.
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Review of
The World of Soy
Edited by Christine M. DuBois, Chee-Beng Tan, Sidney Mintz
2008
University of Illinois Press
Reviewed by Andrea Wiley
Professor of Anthropology, Indiana University, Bloomington
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Review of
The Human Cost of Food: Farmworkers’ Lives, Labor, and Advocacy
Edited by Charles D. Thompson, Jr., and Melinda F. Wiggins
2002
Austin: University of Texas Press
Reviewed by Lois Stanford
Anthropology, New Mexico State University
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Review of
Food for Thought: Essays on Eating and Culture
Edited by Lawrence C. Rubin
Foreword by John Shelton Lawrence
2007
North Point Press
Reviewed by Susan D. Blum
Department of Anthropology
The University of Notre Dame
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Review of
The Farmers’ Market Book: Growing Food, Cultivating Community
By Jennifer Meta Robinson and J. A. Hartenfeld
2007
Quarry Books
Reviewed by Rachel Black
University of Gastronomic Sciences, Italy
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Review of
Fat: The Anthropology of an Obsession
Edited by Don Kulick and Anne Meneley
2005
Penguin Group
Reviewed by Ann Folino White, Ph.D.
Michigan State University
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Review of
The Restaurants Book: Ethnographies of Where We Eat
By David Beriss and David Sutton
2007
eds. Oxford: Berg
Reviewed by Leslie Carlin
Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Division of Primary Care and Public Health, University of Brighton
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Review of
Broccoli & Desire: Global Connections and Maya Struggles in Postwar Guatemala
By Edward F. Fischer and Peter Benson
2006
Stanford University Press
Reviewed by Leslie Carlin
Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Division of Primary Care and Public Health, University of Brighton
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Review of
Food is Culture
By Massimo Montanari
2006
Columbia University Press
Reviewed by Lidia Marte
The University of Texas at Austin
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Review of
Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health
By Marion Nestle
2003
Berkeley: University of California Press
Reviewed by Joylin Namie
Utah Valley State College
The University of Texas at Austin
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