Author: kellyfoodanth

Welcome to the inaugural interview in what will be a series of videos with founding folks working in the field of food anthropology, which is meant to document…

The Proust Questionnaire has its origins in a parlor game popularized (though not originally devised) by Marcel Proust, the French essayist and novelist, who believed that, in answering…

By Kelly Alexander In the US: Farmers voted overwhelmingly for Trump in 2016, and to thank them he addressed the American Farm Bureau Federation conference in Nashville. “Oh, are…

By Kelly Alexander Happy New Year and without further ado, here’s the state of U.S. food policy on this second day of 2018: Special United States Edition. In…

Ahead of the upcoming AAA annual meeting, here’s a roundup of food and policy news from around the globe: In Brazil, an innovative yet controversial new flour made from…

Kelly Alexander Breaking news from the world of U.S. food policy: President Trump’s new ag secretary Sonny Perdue moves to loosen federal school lunch legislation, thereby slowing healthy food…

Call for Papers AAA Annual Meeting 11/ 29-12/ 3, 2017 Washington, D.C. Environmental Worlds: Between Craft and Emergence Organizers: Mackenzie Cramblit (Duke) and John Moran (Stanford) Discussant:…

Dear SAFN members: For the last three years, I have enjoyed the sense of community that leaps off the screen along with the scholarship on this blog. That’s why…