Josée Johnston, Shyon Bauman, Emily Huddart, Merin Oleschuk. Happy Meat: The Sadness and Joy of a Paradoxical Idea. Stanford University…
Teaching Food Anthropology on the Road
Jennifer Jo Thompson (University of Georgia) Each summer since 2014, I’ve taught anthropology on the road with the University of…
Review: On Hunger
Simmons, Dana. 2025. On Hunger: Violence and Craving in America, from Starvation to Ozempic. University of California Press. ISBN: 9780520412989 xiii…
The Annual SAFN Anthropology Day Photo Contest is On!
SAFN is once again organizing a food/nutrition photo contest in celebration of Anthropology Day. If you have food anthropology related photos that…
Goat: America’s Forgotten Meat?
Amanda KaminskyUniversity of Michigan Why don’t Americans eat more goat meat? I initially started pondering this question after I returned…
Review: Steeped in Heritage: The Racial Politics of South African Rooibos Tea
Ives, Sarah. Steeped in Heritage: The Racial Politics of South African Rooibos Tea. Duke University Press, 2017. ISBN: 978-0-8223-6993-6 xv +…
AFHVS/ASFS 2026 Conference Call for Abstracts
Just Transformations: Reimagining Sustainable Food Systems and CulturesThe Agriculture, Food & Human Values Society (AFHVS), the Association for the Study…
Working on Family in The Bear Season 4
David Sutton (Southern Illinois University) I last wrote about The Bear[1] on this weblog about a year and a half…
Methods Dispatch: Grocery Shop-Alongs
Ariana Gunderson Greetings from the field! I’m in Leipzig, Germany for a year to conduct my dissertation fieldwork on fake…
Review: Bread for the Living, Bread for the Dead
Alexander Strecker (ed). Bread for the LIving, Bread for the Dead. Tavros Press, Athens 2025. 137 pp. ISBN 978-618-87697-0-0 David…
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