Please note: I am soliciting reviews of recent dissertations in the Anthropology of Food. So if you have written a recent … More
Category: food activism
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
Black Women’s Food Work is from the Future
Ashanté M. Reese, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Spelman College When I think about being a Black girl from the … More
Fear, Fire, and Solidarity in New Orleans
David Beriss Someone tried to burn down the Flaming Torch restaurant last week. The restaurant, located in my neighborhood in … More
Fast Food Labor Secretary?
David Beriss In the weeks following his election, President Donald Trump announced the nomination of Andrew F. Puzder to lead … More
Review and Interview: Nurturing Masculinities
Nurturing Masculinities: Men, Food and Family in Contemporary Egypt. Nefissa Naguib. University of Texas Press. 2015. Katharina Graf (SOAS, University … More
Blackness, Food, and State-Sanctioned Violence
Ashanté M. Reese, PhD I began research on food access in Washington, D.C., knowing that I wanted to learn about … More
Eating Insects Detroit
Gina Louise Hunter Illinois State University Eating Insects Detroit: Exploring the Culture of Insects as Food and Feed, held May … More
What FoodAnthro Is Reading Now, May 18 Edition
A selection of items from around the internet of possible interest to readers of FoodAnthropology. If you have items you … More
Slow Fish Report: On Value Chains, the Privatization of the Seas, and the Food Movement
David Beriss University of New Orleans Last month I wrote about the existence of the food movement, which a Washington … More