An intriguing call for papers: Aesthetic: The New Zealand Symposium of Gastronomy Auckland, 2-4 September 2016. The Symposium of Gastronomy welcomes scholars, cooks, food writers and armchair foodies…
An award announcement from the Association for the Anthropology of Policy, of possible interest to graduate students: The Association for the Anthropology of Policy (ASAP) invites submissions for…
Colin Thor West UNC Chapel Hill Anthropologists from around the world gathered last week at the Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) Annual Meeting in Vancouver, B.C. Dr. Colin…
Eugene N. Anderson UC Riverside The Society for Applied Anthropology meetings included a very large number of papers on food. Most of them concerned either food security or…
Opportunity for the Recognition of Outstanding Student Research by applying for the Thomas Marchione Award Honoring the seminal academic and humanitarian work of Thomas J. Marchione, this award…
Announcing the 2016 Christine Wilson Award This is an exciting award for outstanding student research examining topics in nutrition, food studies and anthropology. Exemplary graduate and undergraduate…
David Beriss University of New Orleans Last month I wrote about the existence of the food movement, which a Washington Post writer had suggested did not really exist.…
Received from one of our alert readers: The 21st Symposium of Australian Gastronomy: Utopian Appetites Call for Papers The 21st Symposium of Australian Gastronomy will be celebrated in…
David Beriss University of New Orleans Is it possible that the best food movie ever made is not a food movie? Last fall I was teaching a course…
Alert SAFN member Richard Wilk has called our attention to the looming May 1 deadline for submissions for the Sophie Coe Prize. What is the Sophie Coe Prize?…
Call for papers for a conference that may be of interest to FoodAnthropology readers: CALL FOR PAPERS: Conference on Democratizing Food Governance, Rome, 14 October 2016 Sponsored by…
We recently received the following announcement of an upcoming conference at New York University that may be of interest to our readers. The Manuscript Cookbook Conference, will be…
Manpreet K. Janeja. Transactions in Taste: The Collaborative lives of Everyday Bengali Foods. London: Routledge, 2010. 185 pages, ISBN 978-415553742. Reviewed by Meraz Rahman New Mexico State Universi…
David Beriss University of New Orleans After the festivities of Carnival, we have Lent. Here in New Orleans, even if you are not Catholic, you are surrounded by…
David Beriss University of New Orleans A few weeks ago, Greg de St. Maurice wrote an intriguing piece on this blog about chef activism. He drew on the…
Call for Papers Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition Your opportunity to present at the 115th American Anthropological Association annual meeting in Minneapolis, MN November 16-20, 201…
We have received the following announcement from the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society. Please note that students cannot apply for both this award and the ASFS awards,…
Ellen Messer Tufts University (Part 1 of this 2 part series is here.) As a possible antidote or balance for someone seeking ways ag-biotech might contribute to sustainable…
Ellen Messer Tufts University Krimsky, Sheldon and Jeremy Gruber, eds. 2014. The GMO Deception: What You Need to Know About the Food, Corporations, and Government Agencies Putting Our Families…
Andrea Wiley Indiana University The 2015 Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGAs) were finally released on January 7 2016 to the Secretaries of the U.S. Departments of Health and…
Gregory V. Button Flint, Michigan, the city portrayed as the embodiment of a rust belt city abandoned by deindustrialization in Michael Moore’s allegorical documentary, Roger & Me, has…
Ellen Messer Tufts University Shields, David S. (2015) Southern Provisions. The Creation and Revival of a Cuisine. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Did you ever wonder where Carolina…
King cake, New Orleans style David Beriss University of New Orleans I ate three pieces of cake on Wednesday. All in the name of research, of course. I…
Ellen Messer Tufts University Sid Mintz was the greatest food anthropologist of all time. A dedicated social-justice scholar-activist, he produced path-breaking studies of Caribbean sugar-cane worke…