A brief digest of food and nutrition-related items that caught our attention recently. Got items you think we should include? … More
Category: anthropology
Making #DominicanFoodStudies a thing!
The seeds of this Cilantro were brought over by Dominican immigrants from the Dominican Republic, now it is growing and sold … More
The Development of Food Anthropology: Richard Wilk
Welcome to the inaugural interview in what will be a series of videos with founding folks working in the field … More
The Proust Questionnaire: Dr. Richard Wilk
The Proust Questionnaire has its origins in a parlor game popularized (though not originally devised) by Marcel Proust, the French … More
Review: Food in Zones of Conflict
Food in Zones of Conflict: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives. Edited by Paul Collinson and Helen Macbeth. Berghahn Books. 2014. 252 pp. ISBN … More
Review: Egg (Object Lessons)
Egg (Object Lessons) Nicole Walker. London: Bloomsbury. 2017. 154 pp. ISBN 9781501322877 Leslie Carlin (University of Toronto) When my children were … More
Review: Hippie Food
Hippie Food: How Back to the Landers, Longhairs and Revolutionaries Changed the Way We Eat. Jonathan Kauffman. New York: William … More
What FoodAnthropology Is Reading Now, September 10, 2018
David Beriss A brief digest of food and nutrition-related items that caught our attention recently. Got items you think we … More
Review: The Story of Soy
The Story of Soy. Christine M. Du Bois. London: Reaktion Books, 2018. 266 pp. + References and Index. ISBN 978 … More
Archival Fellowship at the Vermont Folklife Center
The Vermont Folklife Center announces a fellowship (either dissertation or post-doctoral) for those with ethnographic and archival experience. The … More