Amanda KaminskyUniversity of Michigan Why don’t Americans eat more goat meat? I initially started pondering this question after I returned … More
Category: anthropology of food
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 + … More
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 … More
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 … More
2025 Christine Wilson Undergraduate Award Winner!
SAFN is pleased to announce that the 2025 winner of the Christine Wilson Undergraduate Student Award is Arinel Paddock, for … More
2025 Christine Wilson Graduate Award Winner!
SAFN is pleased to announce that the 2025 winner of the Christine Wilson Graduate Student Award is Rikki Brown, for … More
Review: How the World Eats
Julian Baggini. How the World Eats: A Global Food Philosophy. Pegasus Books. New York. 2025. ISBN: 978-1-63936-819-8. Richard Zimmer (Sonoma … More
Wait, Pasta with Yogurt? On Food, Storytelling, and Migration
Elif BirbiriYork University Do we still tell food stories to each other? About what we cook, what we miss, and … More
Review: Mixing Memory and Desire
Lee Johnson 2025 Mixing Memory & Desire: How History Shaped the Foods of the Caribbean. Kingston, Jamaica & Miami, Florida: … More
Review: Chefs, Restaurants and Culinary Sustainability
Counihan, Carole, and Susanne Hojlund eds. Chefs, Restaurants and Culinary Sustainability. University of Arkansas Press, 2024. 392 pp. ISBN 9781682262658 … More