David Sutton In this seventh interview with Professor Amy Trubek (University of Vermont), we discuss the difficult path she followed … More
Category: anthropology of food
“This Sweet Potato is Beautiful.” From Ethnoagronomy to Ethnogastronomy in the work of Virginia Nazarea
David Sutton In the current installment of the SAFN interviews on the origins and development of Food Anthropology, I sit … More
Review: Bigger Fish to Fry: A Theory of Cooking as Risk, with Greek Examples
David E. Sutton, Bigger Fish to Fry: A Theory of Cooking as Risk, with Greek Examples, Berghahn, 2021, ISBN 978-1-80073-223-0 … More
“What are people claiming when they say that a food is local?” An Interview With David Beriss
David Sutton In this fifth installment of interviews with anthropologists about their work on food I talk with longtime friend … More
Review: Nomadic Food
Isabelle Bianquis and Jean-Pierre Williot, eds. Nomadic Food: Anthropological and Historical Studies Around the World. Rowman and Littlefield. London. 2019. … More
Thesis Review: Tasting Tea, Tasting China
Tasting Tea, Tasting China: Tearooms and the Everyday Culture in Dalian. Yingkun Hou. Ph.D. Thesis in Anthropology, Southern Illinois University, … More
The Sophie Coe Prize in Food History 2022
See below for a call for applications for the Sophie Coe Prize. While technically a history prize, anthropologists have won … More
Food Justice and Cultural Appropriation: How do Place and Nostalgia Fit?
Editor’s Note: This is part of a series of postings by students in a graduate seminar on food justice at … More
SAFN Student Research Award Winner!
SAFN is pleased to award the 2021 Student Research Award to Sucharita Kanjilal for her project, “A homemaker’s diary: Caste, … More
Christine Wilson 2021 Undergraduate Award Winner
SAFN is pleased to announce that Carolyn Mason is the winner of the 2021 Christine Wilson Undergraduate Award, for her … More
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