From My Family’s Farm to Morocco’s Future: The Fight for Safe Food in a Changing Climate
Figure 1. Zak Choukri holding a fig in Aïn Berda, Morocco (2019). Photo by author. A note from Mecca Howe, PhD: This blog article was written for an…
Figure 1. Zak Choukri holding a fig in Aïn Berda, Morocco (2019). Photo by author. A note from Mecca Howe, PhD: This blog article was written for an…
A digital drawing of a pig, with its head, hooves, and tail colored red, and its body patterned with green dollars, by the author. A note from Mecca…
A digital drawing of a pig, with its head, hooves, and tail colored red, and its body patterned with green dollars, by the author. A note from Mecca…
Rindszunge in Sahnesauce mit Kapern, Sacha47, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons A note from Mecca (Med) Howe, PhD: This blog article was written fo…
Rindszunge in Sahnesauce mit Kapern, Sacha47, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons A note from Mecca Howe, PhD: This blog article was written for an u…
Emily de WetSkidmore College On April 28th, a video of pop star Billie Eilish went viral and unleashed a firestorm of controversy online. In the video, Eilish was…
Emily de WetSkidmore College On April 28th, a video of pop star Billie Eilish went viral and unleashed a firestorm of controversy online. In the video, Eilish was…
A note from Katharina Graf: On 1 December 2025 we launched the edited volume “Food Beyond Terroir: Tasting Place and Placing Taste in Global Perspective” (open access), edited by my…
A note from Katharina Graf: On 1 December 2025 we launched the edited volume “Food Beyond Terroir: Tasting Place and Placing Taste in Global Perspective” (open access), edited by my…
A note from Katharina Graf: On 1 December 2025 we launched the edited volume “Food Beyond Terroir: Tasting Place and Placing Taste in Global Perspective” (open access), edited by my c…
A note from Katharina Graf: On 1 December 2025 we launched the edited volume “Food Beyond Terroir: Tasting Place and Placing Taste in Global Perspective” (open access), edited by my c…
Spicy crawfish (Chinese style), 2022. Photo by Amanda Kaminsky. Amanda Kaminsky (UC Merced) How do you like to eat crawfish? If you live in the United States (particularly…
Spicy crawfish (Chinese style), 2022. Photo by Amanda Kaminsky. Amanda Kaminsky (UC Merced) How do you like to eat crawfish? If you live in the United States (particularly…
Jennifer Jo Thompson (University of Georgia) Each summer since 2014, I’ve taught anthropology on the road with the University of Georgia’s Interdisciplinary Field Program (IFP)—a domestic field pr…
Sambusas, Somali restaurant, Minneapolis, 12/25. Photo: David Beriss SAFN is once again organizing a food/nutrition photo contest in celebration of Anthropology Day. If you have food ant…
This is Romeo, a friendly buck (breeding male goat). Photo by Amanda Kaminsky, 2025. Amanda KaminskyUniversity of Michigan Why don’t Americans eat more goat meat? I initially started…
Just Transformations: Reimagining Sustainable Food Systems and CulturesThe Agriculture, Food & Human Values Society (AFHVS), the Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS), and the …
A phone full of photos of shelves full of food. Photo by Ariana Gunderson. Ariana Gunderson Greetings from the field! I’m in Leipzig, Germany for a year to…
Rikki Brown in the field. Photo by Rowan Twine. SAFN is pleased to announce that the 2025 winner of the Christine Wilson Graduate Student Award is Rikki Brown,…
Almost every aspect of life on earth interacts with soil. Soils are old. Soils take time to develop from their parent material. Soils embody life itself. Yet, the…
Pasta with yogurt, photo by Elif Birbiri Elif BirbiriYork University Do we still tell food stories to each other? About what we cook, what we miss, and what…
SAFN is pleased to announce that the 2025 SAFN Student Research Award winner is Mandy Muise. Muise is a PhD student in the Department of Anthropology at Vanderbilt…
D.H. We Amanda GreenSAFN President SAFN is excited to announce its 2025 Future of Food Fellows: D.H. We and Elif Birbiri. Started in 2023, the aim of this…
Elif Birbiri Amanda GreenSAFN President SAFN is excited to announce its 2025 Future of Food Fellows: Elif Birbiri and D.H. We. Started in 2023, the aim of this…