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

Cooking and tasting as complex practice in the work of Amy Trubek 

David Sutton In this seventh interview with Professor Amy Trubek (University of Vermont), we discuss the difficult path she followed … More

“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