Performing State Boundaries: Food Networks, Democratic Bureaucracy and China by Christof Lammer (Berghahn 2024), 272 pages, ISBN 978-1-80539-651-2 Ellen Oxfeld … More
Tag: Food policy
Big Food’s Corporate Science Takes Firm Hold in China
Susan GreenhalghHarvard University The 1990s were tough times for the soda industry. In the United States, obesity rates were exploding. … More
ENVISIONING A WORLD WITHOUT HUNGER: A TRIBUTE TO ALAN SHAWN FEINSTEIN (1931-2024)
Ellen Messer On 7 September 2024 the world lost a champion hunger fighter and passionate promoter of education incentivizing kindness … More
Thesis Review: Bittersweet – Living with sugar and kin in contemporary Scotland
Bittersweet: Living with sugar and kin in contemporary Scotland. Imogen Bevan. PhD in Social Anthropology, University of Edinburgh. 2022. Francesca … More
The Household’s Basket: Households in a Basket, Part 2
Leonidas VournelisBaruch College, CUNY In part one of this essay, I briefly described the workings of the “Household’s Basket”, a … More
The Household’s Basket: Households in a basket
Leonidas VournelisBaruch College, CUNY Editor’s note: This is part 1 of a 2 part essay. Like most EU countries during … More
Perspectives On U.S. Food Policy: Farm Bill 2018
Ellen Messer An essay inspired by Amy Goldstein’s Janesville: An American Story (2017, Simon and Schuster). What this account of economic decline … More
Food OpEd Fellowship opportunity in San Francisco
Received from Polly Adema, who is the Director of the Master of Arts in Food Studies Program at the University … More
What FoodAnthropology Is Reading Now, January 27, 2017
A brief digest of food and nutrition-related items that caught our attention recently. Got items you think we should include? … More
Fast Food Labor Secretary?
David Beriss In the weeks following his election, President Donald Trump announced the nomination of Andrew F. Puzder to lead … More
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