What Is Good, Clean, and Fair? Panel Discussion of the Choices We Make

SAFN member and food and environmental anthropologist Mark Anthony Arceño will be hosting a panel discussion next Wednesday, June 15th, … More

Review: The Automat

David Beriss The Automat, directed by Lisa Hurwitz. 2021, 1hr 18 minutes. I ate in an Automat only one time. … More

Review: To Boldly Grow

Haspel, Tamar (2022) To Boldly Grow. Finding Joy, Adventure, and Dinner in Your Own Backyard. New York: G. P. Putnam’s … More

Review: Vino

Campanale, Joe, and Joshua David Stein. Vino: The Essential Guide to Real Italian Wine. Clarkson Potter, 2022. 320 pp. ISBN … More

“God, I miss fruit”: Student food insecurity on Australian campuses

Sara Guest, Jane Dyson, Craig Jeffrey, and Gyorgy Scrinis (The University of Melbourne) University and college food insecurity is a … More

Review: The “Grand Meze” Exhibit at the Mucem in Marseille, France

Rachel Black (Connecticut College) This exhibit runs from May 19, 2021 – Dec. 31, 2023. Is food the most unifying … More

Winners of SAFN’s 2nd Annual Anthropology Day Photo Contest!

David Beriss We are ready to reveal the winners of this year’s SAFN Anthropology Day photo contest! The weighty decision … More

“This Sweet Potato is Beautiful.” From Ethnoagronomy to Ethnogastronomy in the work of Virginia Nazarea

David Sutton In the current installment of the SAFN interviews on the origins and development of Food Anthropology, I sit … More

Review: Bigger Fish to Fry: A Theory of Cooking as Risk, with Greek Examples

David E. Sutton, Bigger Fish to Fry: A Theory of Cooking as Risk, with Greek Examples, Berghahn, 2021, ISBN 978-1-80073-223-0 … More

“What are people claiming when they say that a food is local?” An Interview With David Beriss

David Sutton In this fifth installment of interviews with anthropologists about their work on food I talk with longtime friend … More