SAFN is pleased to announce that the 2025 winner of the Christine Wilson Graduate Student Award is Rikki Brown, for … More
Category: anthropology of food
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
Review: The Problem with Solutions
Guthman, Julie. The Problem with Solutions: Why Silicon Valley Can’t Hack the Future of Food. University of California Press. 272 … More
Review: Performing State Boundaries
Performing State Boundaries: Food Networks, Democratic Bureaucracy and China by Christof Lammer (Berghahn 2024), 272 pages, ISBN 978-1-80539-651-2 Ellen Oxfeld … More
SAFN Anthro Day Photo Contest, Part 3!
David Beriss Having posted the tied winners of this year’s SAFN Anthro Day Photo contest (which you can see here … More
SAFN Anthro Day Photo Contest, Part 2!
David Beriss Last week we announced the winners of this year’s SAFN Anthropology Day Photo Contest. You can read that … More
Review: Ark of Taste Kenya
Ark of Taste Kenya (2nd Edition). Michele F. Fontefrancesco, Dauro Zocchi and Charles Barstow eds. 2024 Vicolo de Pavone Editore, … More