Review: The Hungry Eye

Leonard Barkan. The Hungry Eye: Eating, Drinking and European Culture from Rome to the Renaissance. Princeton University Press. Princeton, New … More

Review: Our Daily Bread

Our Daily Bread: A Meditation on the Cultural and Symbolic Significance of Bread Throughout History Predrag Matvejević. Translated from the … More

Hunger, Religion, and Public Anthropology

Betsy Taylor Is feeding the hungry, a key moral value in religious teachings across cultures? I was recently asked this … More

Thesis Review: Ethical Constellations of Muslim Food Practice in Mumbai

Photographs by Shaheed Tayob I’m delighted to post this exciting PhD thesis review, which nicely complements the recently posted review … More

Review: Food, Faith and Gender in Southeast Asia

Food, Faith and Gender in South Asia: The Cultural Politics of Women’s Food Practices. Usha Sanyal and Nita Kumar. Bloomsbury. … More

Review: Religion in the Kitchen

Pérez , Elizabeth. (2016). Religion in the Kitchen: Cooking, Talking, and the Making of Black Atlantic Traditions. New York University … More

Review: Women on Food

Druckman, Charlotte + 115 Writers, Chefs, Critics, Television Stars, and Eaters (2019) Women On Food. New York: Abrams Press. 400 … More

Review: Sacred Rice

Davidson, Joanna. (2016). Sacred Rice: An Ethnography of Identity, Environment, and Development in West Africa. Oxford University Press. (249 pp.) … More

CFP: Putting the Cult back into Food Culture!

Food Cults Call for Chapter Proposals Editor: Kima Cargill, University of Washington Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield/Food & Gastronomy Series Series … More