Sarah Trainer, Alexandra Brewis, and Amber Wutich. Extreme Weight Loss: Life Before and After Bariatric Surgery. New York University Press. … More
Category: book reviews
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
Review: Making Levantine Cuisine
Anny Gaul, Graham Auman Pitts, Vicki Valosik, eds. Making Levantine Cuisine: Modern Foodways of the Eastern Mediterranean. University of Texas … More
Review: Palm Oil
Max Haiven Palm Oil: The Grease of Empire. Pluto Press, London, 2022. ISBN 9780745345826. Leonidas Vournelis (Baruch College) Max Haiven’s … More
Review: Gastronativism
Fabio Parasecoli. Gastronativism: Food, Identity, Politics. Columbia University Press. New York: 2022. ISBN:9780231202077 Mary Black (Southern Illinois University Carbondale) Politics … More
Review: Koshersoul
Michael W. Twitty. Koshersoul: The Faith and Journey of an African American Jew. Amistad—An Imprint of Harper Collins. New York: … More
Review: Beyond Global Food Supply Chains
Victoria Stead and Melinda Hinkston, eds. Beyond Global Food Supply Chains: Crisis, Disruption, Regeneration. Palgrave. MacMillan. Open Access. (2022) https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-19-3155-0 … More