Film Reviews: El Cacao and No Place to Grow

Emilia Noel PtakThe University of Vermont The films El Cacao and No Place to Grow, directed by Michelle Aguilar, invite … More

Review: The Automat

David Beriss The Automat, directed by Lisa Hurwitz. 2021, 1hr 18 minutes. I ate in an Automat only one time. … More

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

Please note: As Associate Reviews Editor, I am soliciting reviews of recent dissertations in the Anthropology of Food. So if … More

Photograph: Gauri A. Pitale – Waterlogged rice fields of rural Konkan, Maharashtra Please note: As Associate Editor, I am soliciting reviews … More

Please note: I am soliciting reviews of recent dissertations in the Anthropology of Food. So if you have written a recent … More

Photograph: Fernando Lopez Please note: As Associate Editor, I am soliciting reviews of recent dissertations in the Anthropology of Food. So … More

David Beriss What is it we fear most in our food supply in the post-industrial West? Food shortages? Industrialized food? … More

High science has established its place in contemporary cooking. John Lanchester has written an excellent piece about it in the … More