Warren Wilson College, This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-ND Amanda GreenEastern Kentucky University On Friday September 27, 2024, Hurricane Helene dumped 12-20 inches of…
Susan Greenhalgh. Soda Science: Making the World Safe for Coca-Cola. University of Chicago Press, 2024. 352 pages. Christy Spackman (Arizona State University) I recently returned from a tri…
The deadline to submit proposals to the best food studies conference in North America has been extended to January 31! You still have time to submit a proposal.…
Graphic Gastronomy Bandes Dessinées, Comics, Mangas and Food Cultures through History 15th Conference of the European Institute for the History and Culture of Food 3 – 5 December…
Minny Lee We are pleased to announce that the winner of the 2024 Christine Wilson graduate award is Minny Lee, for her essay entitled “Korean Buddhist Temple Food:…
Sophie Warth We are pleased to announce Sophie Warth as the winner of the 2024 Christine Wilson undergraduate writing award. She won with a paper entitled “First Meals…
4th Conference on Food & Communication Food for All: Media, Communication and Food Democracy University of Lille, France, 10-12 September 2025 The 4th Conference on Food & Commu…
Meaningful Mealtimes Human and nonhuman lives may have first become closely entangled with the rise of agriculture as we raised both animals to eat and other animals that…
On 5 and 6 June 2025, the 8th Amsterdam Symposium on the History of Food will take place at Allard Pierson, University of Amsterdam. This year’s topic is:…
Susan GreenhalghHarvard University The 1990s were tough times for the soda industry. In the United States, obesity rates were exploding. Public health critics pointed to sugary soda as…
Ellen Messer On 7 September 2024 the world lost a champion hunger fighter and passionate promoter of education incentivizing kindness and community service. Alan Shawn Feinstein (ASF),…
Food Cultures and Social Justice The Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society and the Association for the Study of Food and Society Annual Conference 2025 Call for Proposals…
Ariana GundersonIndiana University I recently had the opportunity to share the importance and joys of our discipline of Food Anthropology with sixteen middle schoolers who visited Indiana Universi…
Harris, Will (2023) A Bold Return to Giving a Damn. One Farm, Six Generations, and the Future of Food. With Amely Greeven. Viking. ISBN 9780593300473. 304 pages. Ellen Messer…
Andrew MitchelPhD CandidateThe Ohio State University What does it mean to be an expert on food? This piece will argue that my scholarly work and the knowledge and…
Texas State Fair Awards. Photo: David Beriss Amanda Green, SAFN President Welcome to the new year SAFN members! We want to draw your attention to SAFN’s Awards, which…
The Pies are Back, New Orleans. Photo: David Beriss SAFN is once again organizing a food/nutrition photo contest for Anthropology Day (February 15). If you have food anthropology…
Amanda Kaminsky SAFN is pleased to announce that Amanda Kaminsky is the winner of the 2023 Christine Wilson Graduate paper award! Kaminsky, a PhD student at the University…
Hunter Calvert SAFN is pleased to announce that the annual Christine Wilson undergraduate paper award winner is Hunter McKenzie Calvert for his paper on “Relationships as Infrastructure: Unde…
Content and Trigger Warning: This post contains commentary and reflections about disordered eating. Food(ie) Fixation In September 2019, I responded to an advertisement by a Dutch university for a…
Lunch at Stella Maris Cafe, Arabi, Louisiana. Photo: David Beriss David Beriss In planning my classes this year, I did not count on war. I am teaching Food…
The Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society and the Association for the Study of Food and Society Annual Conference Right to Food—Food as Commons 2024 Call for Proposals…
Lebanese white grapes, for wine and arak. Photo: B for Bacchus. Samira BecharaUniversity of New Orleans I am a budding historian researching wine in Lebanon, particularly French policy…
Plants and Their Stories Finally, it’s time. As a team we have arrived in Cambodia—a geographer and an anthropologist embarking on a journey that we have joyfully planned…