Food, Faith and Gender in South Asia: The Cultural Politics of Women’s Food Practices. Usha Sanyal and Nita Kumar. Bloomsbury. … More
Category: book reviews
Thesis Review: Tasting in Mundane Practices
Please note: As Associate Reviews Editor, I am soliciting reviews of recent dissertations in the Anthropology of Food. So if … More
Review: Making Milk
Cohen, Mathilde, and Yoriko Otomo. Making Milk: The Past, Present, and Future of Our Primary Food. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. … More
Thesis Review and Interview: Deorukhe Women’s Agency in the Making of Bodies, Cuisine, and Culture in Maharashtra, India
Photograph: Gauri A. Pitale – Waterlogged rice fields of rural Konkan, Maharashtra Please note: As Associate Editor, I am soliciting reviews … More
Book Note: Best Food Writing 2017
Ellen Messer Hughes, Holly (ed) 2017. Best Food Writing 2017. New York: Da Capo Press. Highly recommended as enjoyable, informative companion reading … More
Thesis Review: Placing the Apple
Please note: I am soliciting reviews of recent dissertations in the Anthropology of Food. So if you have written a recent … More
Review: A Foodie’s Guide to Capitalism
A Foodie’s Guide to Capitalism: Understanding the Political Economy of What We Eat, Eric Holt-Giménez, Monthly Review Press, 2017. Jo … More
Thesis Review and Interview: Tacos, Gumbo, and Work
Photograph: Fernando Lopez Please note: As Associate Editor, I am soliciting reviews of recent dissertations in the Anthropology of Food. So … More
Review: Two Books on Hunger and Food Security
De Schutter, Olivier. and Cordes, Kaitlin Y. 2011. Accounting for Hunger: The Right to Food in an Era of Globalisation. … More
Transactions in Taste: The Collaborative lives of Everyday Bengali Foods
Manpreet K. Janeja. Transactions in Taste: The Collaborative lives of Everyday Bengali Foods. London: Routledge, 2010. 185 pages, ISBN 978-415553742. Reviewed … More
