Emily de WetSkidmore College On April 28th, a video of pop star Billie Eilish went viral and unleashed a firestorm … More
Category: food politics
Review: Gastronativism
Fabio Parasecoli. Gastronativism: Food, Identity, Politics. Columbia University Press. New York: 2022. ISBN:9780231202077 Mary Black (Southern Illinois University Carbondale) Politics … More
Thesis Review and Discussion: The Metamorphosis of Greek Cuisine
Thesis review and discussion by Richard Wilk: The Metamorphosis of Greek Cuisine, written by Nafsika Papacharalampous
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
Milk…It’s Good to Think
David McMurray Anthropology, emeritus Oregon State University I am a product of the Upper Midwest with its (waning) Scandinavian and … 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
Not Safe Spaces: On Protest & Exclusion in DC Restaurants
David Beriss It seems like every social crisis gets played out, one way or another, in restaurants. Lately, a few … More
Review: Sorting the Beef from the Bull
Sorting the Beef from the Bull. The Science of Food Fraud Forensics. Richard Evershed and Nicola Temple. Bloomsbury, 2016. Ellen … 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
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