Katharina Graf The Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition is seeking recent PhD theses in the anthropology of…
Review: Making Levantine Cuisine
Anny Gaul, Graham Auman Pitts, Vicki Valosik, eds. Making Levantine Cuisine: Modern Foodways of the Eastern Mediterranean. University of Texas…
“The task was to fit their bodies into these infrastructural worlds.” Food, Bodies, and Ethnicities in the Work of Krishnendu Ray
David Sutton In this eighth interview in the series on the development of Food Anthropology I sit down with Professor…
SAFN Awards for 2023!
Ryan Adams The Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition offers five awards annually. Please follow the links below…
Review: Palm Oil
Max Haiven Palm Oil: The Grease of Empire. Pluto Press, London, 2022. ISBN 9780745345826. Leonidas Vournelis (Baruch College) Max Haiven’s…
Third Annual Anthropology Day Photo Contest!
SAFN is once again organizing a food/nutrition photo contest for Anthropology Day (February 16). If you have food anthropology related…
What FoodAnthropology Is Reading Now, A New Year
David Beriss A new year and a new column. As a reminder, this is a brief digest of food and…
Review: Gastronativism
Fabio Parasecoli. Gastronativism: Food, Identity, Politics. Columbia University Press. New York: 2022. ISBN:9780231202077 Mary Black (Southern Illinois University Carbondale) Politics…
CFP ASFS/AFHVS 2023: Knowing Food
A quick reminder that the final deadline to submit proposals for the ASFS/AFHVS 2023 Conference is January 15! Click here…
Waffle House: Sameness, Diversity and Southern Image
Andrew Mitchel and Laurie K. SmithThe Ohio State University Waffle House occupies a distinct space in the American culinary imaginary.…