David Sutton In this eighth interview in the series on the development of Food Anthropology I sit down with Professor Krishnendu Ray (NYU). We discuss Professor Ray’s initial…
Award Winning Cheese! Photo: David Beriss Ryan Adams The Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition offers five awards annually. Please follow the links below for application…
St. Joseph’s Day Altar, New Orleans. Photo: David Beriss SAFN is once again organizing a food/nutrition photo contest for Anthropology Day (February 16). If you have food anthropology…
King cake, baby. Photo: David Beriss David Beriss A new year and a new column. As a reminder, this is a brief digest of food and nutrition-related items…
Knowing oysters? Photo by David Beriss A quick reminder that the final deadline to submit proposals for the ASFS/AFHVS 2023 Conference is January 15! Click here for the…
A Waffle House in Columbus, Ohio (Photo By Andrew Mitchel) Andrew Mitchel and Laurie K. SmithThe Ohio State University Waffle House occupies a distinct space in the American…
El Faro Restaurant, https://ny.eater.com/2012/10/4/6539001/old-timer-el-faro-closed-until-owner-can-raise-80000 David Sutton It was a small, unassuming entrance, hidden away on the corner of Gre…
See below for a call for applications for the Sophie Coe Prize. While technically a history prize, anthropologists have won over the years. Indeed, as noted below, Dr.…
David Sutton In this seventh interview with Professor Amy Trubek (University of Vermont), we discuss the difficult path she followed in graduate school to write about the Anthropology…
For those of you who plan to be in person at the American Anthropological Association conference this week in Seattle, Washington, we have an exciting informal opportunity for…
Congratulatory cake! Green Tea Milles Crepe Cake by Wishing Town Bakery, New Orleans, photo by David Beriss Amanda Green (SAFN Award Committee) and Jennifer Jo Thompson (SAFN President)…
Emilia Noel PtakThe University of Vermont The films El Cacao and No Place to Grow, directed by Michelle Aguilar, invite viewers to consider food as a nexus, where…
Join SAFN at AAA this November in Seattle! We look forward to welcoming Dr. Mythri Jegathesan as our invited speaker at the SAFN + C&A reception on Friday night at Zaika restaurant just…
A few of Tom Fitzmorris’ many books. David Beriss What does it mean to be a restaurant critic for fifty years? I recently attended a dinner in honor…
Pamela RunestadAllegheny College I presented a framework for building a Food Studies syllabus at the Umbra Institute in Perugia, Italy on June 10, 2022. Thanks to positive responses…
Jennifer Jo Thompson, University of Georgia (SAFN President) After three years of planning, postponing due to COVID-19, and then planning again, “Cultivating Connections”—the 2022 joint annual mee…
Wu, Amy (2021) Farms to Incubators. Women Innovators Revolutionizing How Our Food is Grown. Fresno, California: Craven Street Books. Ellen Messer (Tufts University) This book, like the docum…
SAFN member and food and environmental anthropologist Mark Anthony Arceño will be hosting a panel discussion next Wednesday, June 15th, from 12-1pm EST, focusing on food and food…
Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, photograph by Bernard Gotfryd, Bernard Gotfryd photograph collection. David Beriss The Automat, directed by Lisa Hurwitz. 2021, 1hr 18 min…
Haspel, Tamar (2022) To Boldly Grow. Finding Joy, Adventure, and Dinner in Your Own Backyard. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons. 231 pp. Ellen Messer (Tufts University) How many…
Campanale, Joe, and Joshua David Stein. Vino: The Essential Guide to Real Italian Wine. Clarkson Potter, 2022. 320 pp. ISBN 9780593136140. Jesse Dart, Arizona State University, Swette Center…
Produce, photo by David Beriss Jane Dyson, Craig Jeffrey, Gyorgy Scrinis and Sara Guest (The University of Melbourne) University and college food insecurity is a flourishing area of…
Rachel Black (Connecticut College) This exhibit runs from May 19, 2021 – Dec. 31, 2023. Is food the most unifying element of the Mediterranean? By focusing on foodways…
David Beriss We are ready to reveal the winners of this year’s SAFN Anthropology Day photo contest! The weighty decision was reached by a panel made up of…