A note from Katharina Graf: On 1 December 2025 we launched the edited volume “Food Beyond Terroir: Tasting Place and Placing Taste in Global Perspective” (open access), edited by my c…
Spicy crawfish (Chinese style), 2022. Photo by Amanda Kaminsky. Amanda Kaminsky (UC Merced) How do you like to eat crawfish? If you live in the United States (particularly…
Shannon CaplanOregon State University Fall 2025 was a turbulent time for the food social safety net and those who work with it, requiring new ideas or new approaches…
The time has come to plan and submit sessions for the 2026 American Anthropology Association Annual Meeting in St. Louis, Missouri! The meeting will take place from November…
David Beriss Our last, but perhaps most famous, winner of this year’s SAFN Anthropology Day Photo Contest is none other than Carole Counihan, who comes in third place.…
David Beriss We are happy to announce that Caroline Stahley, a graduate student in the Applied Anthropology program of the University of South Florida, has taken second place…
David Beriss As I noted in my previous post, we had a tie for the winner of this year’s SAFN Anthropology Day Photo Contest. The tie is between…
David Beriss It is time once again to reveal the winners of the 2026 SAFN Anthropology Day Photo Contest! Our decisions this year were reached by a panel…
Jennifer Jo Thompson (University of Georgia) Each summer since 2014, I’ve taught anthropology on the road with the University of Georgia’s Interdisciplinary Field Program (IFP)—a domestic field pr…
Sambusas, Somali restaurant, Minneapolis, 12/25. Photo: David Beriss SAFN is once again organizing a food/nutrition photo contest in celebration of Anthropology Day. If you have food ant…
This is Romeo, a friendly buck (breeding male goat). Photo by Amanda Kaminsky, 2025. Amanda KaminskyUniversity of Michigan Why don’t Americans eat more goat meat? I initially started…
Just Transformations: Reimagining Sustainable Food Systems and CulturesThe Agriculture, Food & Human Values Society (AFHVS), the Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS), and the …
A phone full of photos of shelves full of food. Photo by Ariana Gunderson. Ariana Gunderson Greetings from the field! I’m in Leipzig, Germany for a year to…
Arinel Paddock SAFN is pleased to announce that the 2025 winner of the Christine Wilson Undergraduate Student Award is Arinel Paddock, for their essay “Who’s Afraid of Gefilte…
Rikki Brown in the field. Photo by Rowan Twine. SAFN is pleased to announce that the 2025 winner of the Christine Wilson Graduate Student Award is Rikki Brown,…
Pasta with yogurt, photo by Elif Birbiri Elif BirbiriYork University Do we still tell food stories to each other? About what we cook, what we miss, and what…
D.H. We Amanda GreenSAFN President SAFN is excited to announce its 2025 Future of Food Fellows: D.H. We and Elif Birbiri. Started in 2023, the aim of this…
Elif Birbiri Amanda GreenSAFN President SAFN is excited to announce its 2025 Future of Food Fellows: Elif Birbiri and D.H. We. Started in 2023, the aim of this…
Performing State Boundaries: Food Networks, Democratic Bureaucracy and China by Christof Lammer (Berghahn 2024), 272 pages, ISBN 978-1-80539-651-2 Ellen Oxfeld (Middlebury College) Several …
SAFN is happy to announce that we are extending the deadlines for submitting papers for the Thomas Marchione Food-as-a-Human Right Student Award and the two Christine Wilson Awards…
David Beriss Having posted the tied winners of this year’s SAFN Anthro Day Photo contest (which you can see here and here), it is time to post the…
David Beriss Last week we announced the winners of this year’s SAFN Anthropology Day Photo Contest. You can read that post here. We had a tie for first…
David Beriss The time has come to reveal the winners of this year’s glorious SAFN Anthropology Day Photo Contest! Our decision this year was reached by a panel…
Andrew MitchelPhD Candidate, Department of AnthropologyThe Ohio State University On March 25th, the Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting in Portland, Oregon hosted a Traditional Food…