Ellen Messer March 17–St. Patrick’s Day fell on a Friday during Lent, when Roman Catholics ordinarily forego meat. But this … More
Category: nutrition
What EM Is Thinking
Frequent FoodAnthropology book reviewer Ellen Messer has sent us this eclectic collection of comments and insights into recent food and … More
Post Doc: Dietary transitions in Ghanaian cities
Post Doc Opportunity that may interest FoodAnthropology readers: PROJECT INFORMATION Title of project: Dietary transitions in Ghanaian cities: mapping the factors … More
The 2015 Dietary Guidelines for Americans and the obfuscation of measurement
Andrea Wiley Indiana University The 2015 Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGAs) were finally released on January 7 2016 to the … More
Call for Papers! SAFN at AAA 2015, Denver.
Your opportunity to present at the 114th American Anthropological Association annual meeting in Denver, CO November 18-22, 2015 REMINDER! REMINDER! REMINDER! … More
What FoodAnthropology is Reading
David Beriss University of New Orleans An occasional and somewhat random list of articles, books, web sites, movies, television shows, … More
Food Forward on PBS
David Beriss University of New Orleans Food Forward is a new documentary series on PBS focusing on people experimenting with … More
CFP: Anthropology of Child Feeding
CFP for Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association December 3-7, 2014, Washington, D.C. Panel Organizers: Chelsea Wentworth (University of … 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
Solving the World Food Crisis
SCIENTIFIC, SPIRITUAL, AND MORAL CHALLENGES IN SOLVING THE WORLD FOOD CRISIS THE INSTITUTE ON RELIGION IN AN AGE OF SCIENCE Fifty-ninth Annual Summer Conference Silver Bay, New York July 27 to … More