SAFN 2022 Awards!

Amanda Green (SAFN Award Committee) and Jennifer Jo Thompson (SAFN President) The Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition … More

Film Reviews: El Cacao and No Place to Grow

Emilia Noel PtakThe University of Vermont The films El Cacao and No Place to Grow, directed by Michelle Aguilar, invite … More

SAFN in Seattle at AAA 2022!

Join SAFN at AAA this November in Seattle! We look forward to welcoming Dr. Mythri Jegathesan as our invited speaker at the … More

The Critic Retires: Fifty Years of Restaurant Writing

David Beriss What does it mean to be a restaurant critic for fifty years? I recently attended a dinner in … More

Building a “Web of Intrigue”: Teaching Food Studies

Pamela RunestadAllegheny College I presented a framework for building a Food Studies syllabus at the Umbra Institute in Perugia, Italy … More

Review: Power Hungry

Cope, Suzanne (2022) Power Hungry. Women of the Black Panther Party and Freedom Summer and Their Fight to Feed a … More

In Case You Missed It: Cultivating Connections 2022

Jennifer Jo Thompson, University of Georgia (SAFN President) After three years of planning, postponing due to COVID-19, and then planning … More

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: Vino

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