Eric Holt-Gimenez & Other SAFN AAA Highlights
Amanda Green The SAFN program committee (Amanda Green, Ryan Adams, Jennifer Jo Thompson) are excited to announce SAFN events for the 2018 AAA meeting in San Jose, California.…
Amanda Green The SAFN program committee (Amanda Green, Ryan Adams, Jennifer Jo Thompson) are excited to announce SAFN events for the 2018 AAA meeting in San Jose, California.…
Cohen, Mathilde, and Yoriko Otomo. Making Milk: The Past, Present, and Future of Our Primary Food. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. ISBN: 9781350029965 Kerri Lesh Center for Basque Studies…
Food in Zones of Conflict: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives. Edited by Paul Collinson and Helen Macbeth. Berghahn Books. 2014. 252 pp. ISBN 978-1-78238-403-8 Jacquelyn Heuer (University of South Flor…
Egg (Object Lessons) Nicole Walker. London: Bloomsbury. 2017. 154 pp. ISBN 9781501322877 Leslie Carlin (University of Toronto) When my children were small and I kept frequent company with Mother…
Hippie Food: How Back to the Landers, Longhairs and Revolutionaries Changed the Way We Eat. Jonathan Kauffman. New York: William Morrow, 2018. ISBN 978-0062437303 Richard Zimmer (Sonoma State Univers…
The Story of Soy. Christine M. Du Bois. London: Reaktion Books, 2018. 266 pp. + References and Index. ISBN 978 1 78023 925 5. Ellen Messer, (Tufts University…
Puer Tea: Ancient Caravans and Urban Chic. Jinghong Zhang. University of Washington Press. 2014 Yingkun Hou (Southern Illinois University) Many scholars believe that the province Yunnan, in southwest…
Amy B. Trubek, University of Vermont Americans spend more and more money on food prepared outside the home, and every day cooking becomes more episodic and less…
Ellen Messer An essay inspired by Amy Goldstein’s Janesville: An American Story (2017, Simon and Schuster). What this account of economic decline and increasing social polarization in a …
David Beriss A brief digest of food and nutrition-related items that caught our attention recently. Got items you think we should include? Send links and brief descriptions to…
SAFN has two glorious awards that are given annually to students engaged in various aspects of food and nutrition related research. The deadline for both is coming up…
David Beriss Last week I attended the joint annual meeting of the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society and the Association for the Study of Food and Society.…
by Annie Sheng, Cornell University We experience the world and our food with all our senses, so why not get tactile as we discuss risk and privilege in…
Food Parcels in International Migration: An Intimate View. Diana Mata-Codesal and Maria Abranches (Eds.) Palgrave 2017. Rhian Atkin (Cardiff University) The prospect of a book dedicated to research…
David Beriss A brief digest of food and nutrition-related items that caught our attention recently. Got items you think we should include? Send links and brief descriptions to…
By Annie Sheng, Cornell University In one baking school in Yokohama, I wait as my bread dough rises. The instructor serves me mochi (pounded rice cake) that she…
By Simone Pierre Delerme Memphis’ Summer Avenue has become an enclave with a concentration of Latino-owned restaurants and small businesses. Along the corridor, one will find some…
David Beriss A brief digest of food and nutrition-related items that caught our attention recently. Got items you think we should include? Send links and brief descriptions to…
CFP: AAA 2018 American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, November 14-18, 2018 San Jose, California Organizers: Natalia Gutkowski (Harvard University) and Ashawari Chaudhuri (MIT) Time and …
This fourth installment of the series, “Latinx Foodways in North America,” introduces the work of Teresa Mares, Associate Professor in Anthropology at the University of Vermont. Mares̵…
David Beriss A brief digest of food and nutrition-related items that caught our attention recently. Got items you think we should include? Send links and brief descriptions to…
Does your research look at food practices, food supply chains, local cuisines or agriculture in a changing environment? Does your work draw broadly on the themes of temporality…
With the title, “Latinx Foodways in North America,” we aim to put the series in a more international perspective, inclusive of the United States, Caribbean, Mexico, Central America,…
The Culinaria Research Centre at the University of Toronto invites applications for a full-time postdoctoral fellowship in the field of Food Studies. The Culinaria Research Centre is one…