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Tag: disaster

Recovery Workers, Latinx Foodways, and Small-Business Development in New Orleans

Blog Editor’s note: This is the first installment in FoodAnthropology’s new series on Latinx foodways in North America. We welcome … More

disaster, ethnic foodways, Latinx, migration, New Orleans, North American foodways

The Amatriciana per Amatrice Campaign: Reflections on Food, Solidarity, and the Earthquake in Central Italy

Elisa Ascione and Michael A. Di Giovine In the early hours of August 24, 2016, a 6.2 magnitude earthquake rocked … More

Amatrice, disaster, earthquake, Italy, solidarity

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 … More

disaster, Flint, lead poisoning, michigan, water

Street, Neighborhood, City in the New New Orleans

David Beriss University of New Orleans When Angelo Brocato’s gelato and pastry shop reopened in September, 2006, it seemed like … More

Anthropology, Anthropology of Food, disaster, food studies, New Orleans, restaurants

Diet for a Big Storm: Reflections on Food, Waste and Hurricane Sandy

Diana Mincyte Assistant Professor and Faculty Fellow Center for European and Mediterranean Studies New York University One of the most … More

Anthropology, disaster, economics, food, garbage, New York City, recycling, Sandy, trash

Eating in Times of Financial Crisis

File it under “strange and unusual.” That’s what Reuters did in putting up the photo of one of many Yemeni … More

Anthropology, culture, debt crisis, disaster, economics, Food security, Greece

Seafood Solidarity

Even before I wrote up the restaurant guide for the upcoming AAA meeting in New Orleans, people were asking me … More

AAA meeting, Anthropology, disaster, food, Food policy, Food security, Louisiana, New Orleans, seafood, sustainability

City of Gastronomy

The BP Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico (named, it seems, for the fictitious town invented by Gabriel Garcia … More

AAA meeting, Anthropology, BP oil spill, conference, disaster, Food policy, Gulf coast, Louisiana, New Orleans, seafood, sustainability

Wheat prices “tumble” — for now?

miles and miles of Washington wheat Last week I reported on the dramatic rise in wheat prices and suggested that … More

Anthropology, disaster, economics, Food policy, Food security, globalization, sustainability

Food prices on the rise (again)

Two years after the vicious spike in food prices, global food prices are once again on the rise. Are we … More

Anthropology, disaster, farmers' markets, food, Food policy, Food security, nutrition, sustainability

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