Review: The Labor of Lunch
Gaddis, Jennifer E. (2019). The Labor of Lunch: Why We Need Real Food and Real Jobs in American Public Schools. Oakland, CA: …
Review: Organic Food, Farming and Culture
Chrzan, Janet and Jacqueline A. Ricotta, eds. Organic Food, Farming and Culture. An Introduction. Bloomsbury Academic. 2019. 332 pp. ISBN 1350027839, 9781350027831 …
Review/Interview: Food and Animal Welfare
Food and Animal Welfare Henry Buller and Emma Roe. Contemporary Food Series, Bloomsbury Academic, London. 2018. ISBN 9780857855787 Sharyn Jones (Northern …
Review: The Story of Soy
The Story of Soy. Christine M. Du Bois. London: Reaktion Books, 2018. 266 pp. + References and Index. ISBN 978 1 78023 …
Perspectives On U.S. Food Policy: Farm Bill 2018
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 …
Food OpEd Fellowship opportunity in San Francisco
Received from Polly Adema, who is the Director of the Master of Arts in Food Studies Program at the University of the …
What FoodAnthropology Is Reading Now, February 13, 2017
A brief digest of food and nutrition-related items that caught our attention recently. Got items you think we should include? Send links …
What FoodAnthropology Is Reading Now, January 27, 2017
A brief digest of food and nutrition-related items that caught our attention recently. Got items you think we should include? Send links …
Fast Food Labor Secretary?
David Beriss In the weeks following his election, President Donald Trump announced the nomination of Andrew F. Puzder to lead the U.S. …
Review: Sorting the Beef from the Bull
Sorting the Beef from the Bull. The Science of Food Fraud Forensics. Richard Evershed and Nicola Temple. Bloomsbury, 2016. Ellen Messer (Tufts …
What FoodAnthropology Is Reading Now, December 13, 2016
A brief digest of food and nutrition-related items that caught our attention recently. Got items you think we should include? Send links …
What FoodAnthropology Is Reading Now, August 8 Edition
The inter-webs are exploding with fascinating food and nutrition readings; we can hardly keep up here at FoodAnthropology. Before we get …
Review: Two Books on Hunger and Food Security
De Schutter, Olivier. and Cordes, Kaitlin Y. 2011. Accounting for Hunger: The Right to Food in an Era of Globalisation. London/New York: …
What FoodAnthropology Is Reading Now, July 30 Edition
We have had a brief summer hiatus here in the FoodAnthropology reading and Tour de France watching department, during which we …
What FoodAnthropology Is Reading Now, June 17 Edition
We have a global and eclectic collection of readings for you this week, with a lot of hidden treasures among the links. …
What FoodAnthro Is Reading Now, May 18 Edition
A selection of items from around the internet of possible interest to readers of FoodAnthropology. If you have items you think our …
ASAP 2016 Graduate Paper Prize
An award announcement from the Association for the Anthropology of Policy, of possible interest to graduate students: The Association for the Anthropology …
Slow Fish Report: On Value Chains, the Privatization of the Seas, and the Food Movement
David Beriss University of New Orleans Last month I wrote about the existence of the food movement, which a Washington Post writer …
CFP: Conference on Democratizing Food Governance
Call for papers for a conference that may be of interest to FoodAnthropology readers: CALL FOR PAPERS: Conference on Democratizing Food Governance, …
Genetically-Engineered Crops and Sustainability: Controversies and Commentaries for 2016 (Part 2)
Ellen Messer Tufts University (Part 1 of this 2 part series is here.) As a possible antidote or balance for someone seeking …
Genetically-Engineered Crops and Sustainability: Controversies and Commentaries for 2016 (Part 1)
Ellen Messer Tufts University Krimsky, Sheldon and Jeremy Gruber, eds. 2014. The GMO Deception: What You Need to Know About the Food, Corporations, …
The 2015 Dietary Guidelines for Americans and the obfuscation of measurement
Andrea Wiley Indiana University The 2015 Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGAs) were finally released on January 7 2016 to the Secretaries of …