Ellen Messer Tufts University (Part 1 of this 2 part series is here.) As a possible antidote or balance for…
Genetically-Engineered Crops and Sustainability: Controversies and Commentaries for 2016 (Part 1)
Ellen Messer Tufts University Krimsky, Sheldon and Jeremy Gruber, eds. 2014. The GMO Deception: What You Need to Know About the…
“D.C. is Mambo Sauce”
Early in my fieldwork, I met Kameron (pseudonym) at Denny’s, the only sit down restaurant in Ward 7 at the…
What Food Anthropology Is Reading Now: January 24 Edition
January 24, 2016: Hello FoodAnthropology readers. Doubtless, some of you are getting buried in the East Coast snowpocalypse, and others…
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…
The Flint Water Disaster: A Perfect Storm of Downplaying, Denial, and Deceit
Gregory V. Button Flint, Michigan, the city portrayed as the embodiment of a rust belt city abandoned by deindustrialization in…
What FoodAnthropology is Reading Now: January 18 Edition
January 18, 2016: Happy Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, FoodAnthro readers! There has been quite a bit of new in…
Southern Provisions
Ellen Messer Tufts University Shields, David S. (2015) Southern Provisions. The Creation and Revival of a Cuisine. Chicago: University of…
What FoodAnthropology is Reading Now: January 10 Edition
Hello FoodAnthro readers, we’ve got a great collection of readings this week. As always, if you have something you’d like…
King Cake!
David Beriss University of New Orleans I ate three pieces of cake on Wednesday. All in the name of research,…
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