Mark Bittman. Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of food, From Sustainable to Suicidal. Houghton, Mifflin, Harcourt, Boston and New York: … More
Category: economics
Review: Meals Matter
Michael Symons, Meals Matter: A Radical Economics Through Gastronomy Columbia University Press, 2020. 376 pp. ISBN 9780231196024. Raymond D. Boisvert … More
Review: Eating Nafta
Eating NAFTA: Trade, Food Policies and the Destruction of Mexico. Alyshia Gálvez. University of California Press. 2018. 260pp. ISBN:9780520291812. … More
11th Annual Wine Economics Conference
We recently received the following announcements, which may be of interest to all of you wine anthropologists: (1) CALL FOR … More
Real Food on Campus
David Beriss University of New Orleans Are student activists transforming campus dining? And, if they succeed, what are the implications … More
Connecting Students and Farmers—Still Trying
Bonnie May, David Burley and Kellen Gilbert Southeastern Louisiana University Part Two Our last installment, in spring 2013, left us … More
Book Review: The Ju/’hoan San of Nyae Nyae and Namibian Independence
Biesele, Megan and Robert K. Hitchcock (2013) The Ju/’hoan San of Nyae Nyae and Namibian Independence. Development, Democracy, and Indigenous … More
Do you know if your seafood is “sustainable”? (Don’t worry, neither do I)
Post by Lillian Brown, PhD student in Anthropology and Food Studies at Indiana University I recently started a crowd-funding campaign for … More
Did Feasting Promote Cooperation in the Ancient Andes?
post by Kasia Szremski Vanderbilt University Since 2008, I have been studying the relationship between intergroup interaction and agricultural production on … More
Zucchini as a Gateway Drug: Cultivating food security in Iowa through gardening
Elizabeth Danforth Richey, PhD, MPH and Angie Tagtow MS, LD, RD Iowa Food Systems Council, info@cultivateiowa.org Do more with less. … More