Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern and Teresa M. Mares. Will Work for Food Labor across the Food Chain. University of California Press. 2025. ISBN: … More
Category: anthropology of food
Review: Truffles and Trash
Kelly Alexander. Truffles and Trash: Recirculating Food in a Social Welfare State. The University of North Carolina Press. 2024. ISBN: 9781469678597 Nafsika … More
Review: All Consuming
Ruby Tandoh. All Consuming: Why We Eat The Way We Eat Now. Knopf. New York. 2025. ISBN: 979-8-217-20786-2. Richard Zimmer, Sonoma State University We are all foodies … More
Review: Chinese Espresso
Grazia Ting Deng. Chinese Espresso: Contested Race and Convivial Space in Contemporary Italy. Princeton University Press. Princeton, New Jersey. 2024. 288 … More
Review: Happy Meat
Josée Johnston, Shyon Bauman, Emily Huddart, Merin Oleschuk. Happy Meat: The Sadness and Joy of a Paradoxical Idea. Stanford University … More
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 … More
Review: On Hunger
Simmons, Dana. 2025. On Hunger: Violence and Craving in America, from Starvation to Ozempic. University of California Press. ISBN: 9780520412989 xiii … More
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 … More
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
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