Scott Alves BartonUniversity of Notre Dame The city was humid by midmorning. We were sweaty. The streets fragrant, alternately perfumed … More
Category: anthropology of food
Review: Making Better Coffee
Edward F. Fischer. Making Better Coffee: How Maya Farmers and Third Wave Tastemakers Create Value. University of California Press. Berkeley: … More
Review: Nourishing the Nation
Venetia Johannes. Nourishing the Nation: Food as National Identity in Catalonia. Berghahn Books. New York: 2022. ISBN: 978-1-80073-203-2. Mary Black … More
Review: Anxious Eaters
Janet Chrzan and Kima Cargill Anxious Eaters: Why We Fall for Fad Diets. Columbia University Press. New York: 2022. ISBN … More
Seeking PhD theses for review!
Katharina Graf The Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition is seeking recent PhD theses in the anthropology of … More
“The task was to fit their bodies into these infrastructural worlds.” Food, Bodies, and Ethnicities in the Work of Krishnendu Ray
David Sutton In this eighth interview in the series on the development of Food Anthropology I sit down with Professor … More
SAFN Awards for 2023!
Ryan Adams The Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition offers five awards annually. Please follow the links below … More
What FoodAnthropology Is Reading Now, A New Year
David Beriss A new year and a new column. As a reminder, this is a brief digest of food and … More
Waffle House: Sameness, Diversity and Southern Image
Andrew Mitchel and Laurie K. SmithThe Ohio State University Waffle House occupies a distinct space in the American culinary imaginary. … More
On the Corner of Greenwich and Horatio
David Sutton It was a small, unassuming entrance, hidden away on the corner of Greenwich and Horatio Streets in New … More
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