Shannon CaplanOregon State University Fall 2025 was a turbulent time for the food social safety net and those who work … More
Category: food policy
Review: On Hunger
Simmons, Dana. 2025. On Hunger: Violence and Craving in America, from Starvation to Ozempic. University of California Press. ISBN: 9780520412989 xiii … More
Thesis Review: Bittersweet – Living with sugar and kin in contemporary Scotland
Bittersweet: Living with sugar and kin in contemporary Scotland. Imogen Bevan. PhD in Social Anthropology, University of Edinburgh. 2022. Francesca … 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
Review: The Labor of Lunch
Gaddis, Jennifer E. (2019). The Labor of Lunch: Why We Need Real Food and Real Jobs in American Public Schools. … More
Review: Organic Food, Farming and Culture
Chrzan, Janet and Jacqueline A. Ricotta, eds. Organic Food, Farming and Culture. An Introduction. Bloomsbury Academic. 2019. 332 pp. ISBN … More
Review/Interview: Food and Animal Welfare
Food and Animal Welfare Henry Buller and Emma Roe. Contemporary Food Series, Bloomsbury Academic, London. 2018. ISBN 9780857855787 Sharyn … More
Review: The Story of Soy
The Story of Soy. Christine M. Du Bois. London: Reaktion Books, 2018. 266 pp. + References and Index. ISBN 978 … More
Perspectives On U.S. Food Policy: Farm Bill 2018
Ellen Messer An essay inspired by Amy Goldstein’s Janesville: An American Story (2017, Simon and Schuster). What this account of economic decline … More
Food OpEd Fellowship opportunity in San Francisco
Received from Polly Adema, who is the Director of the Master of Arts in Food Studies Program at the University … More