What FoodAnthropology Is Reading Now, October 26, 2016
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 dberiss@gmail.com or…
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 dberiss@gmail.com or…
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 dberiss@gmail.com or…
David Beriss Going to Minneapolis for the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association? Readers of this blog will probably want to explore the diverse foods available around…
Just ran across this prize announcement from the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation. It seems like there ought to be some solid nominees among SAFN members! Note the…
Recently received conference announcement and call for sessions that should be of great interest to FoodAnthropology readers! Call for sessions Third International Conference on Food History and Cultu…
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 dberiss@gmail.com or…
I began research on food access in Washington, D.C., knowing that I wanted to learn about a) what people were eating b) where they were shopping, and c)…
Shingo Hamada Osaka Shoin Women’s University Fermentation is a preservation technology often seen in Southeast Asia and East Asia, including fish sauce and fermented fish. However, naresaba (fermente…
David Beriss University of New Orleans A few years ago I received an angry email from a student, informing me that she was dropping my “Food and Culture”…
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 dberiss@gmail.com…
Sangyoub Park Washburn University The popular American burger chain Shake Shack just opened its first Korean store on July 22, in the Gangnam District of Seoul, which is…
It is time for the annual call for abstracts from the best food studies conference in North America. This year it will be hosted at Occidental College, in…
By Markus Bell and Jieun Kim In 1998 an article in Seoul’s Kyeonghyang newspaper described a visit to Seoul’s Noryanggin Fish Market as follows: “Arriving in the…
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 dberiss@gmail.com or…
An intriguing call for papers of potential interest to FoodAnthropology readers: Initial Call for Abstracts Food, Space, Place–Edited Volume Editor: Carlnita P. Greene, Ph.D. Ranging from public…
Thomas Marchione Award: Recognizing Outstanding Student Research Honoring the seminal academic and humanitarian work of Thomas J. Marchione, this award is given to an MA, MS or Ph.D.…
The inter-webs are exploding with fascinating food and nutrition readings; we can hardly keep up here at FoodAnthropology. Before we get to the readings, however, we would…
The Community Literacy Journal has just announced the publication of a special issue on “Community Food Literacies.” This journal is available electronically, through Project Muse, but if …
Received from our friends at the Association for the Study of Food and Society, a heads up for next year’s big Food Studies conference: Save the date for…
We have had a brief summer hiatus here in the FoodAnthropology reading and Tour de France watching department, during which we have, in fact, been doing some…
Cargill, Kima. 2015. The Psychology of Overeating. Food and the Culture of Consumerism. London/New York: Bloomsbury Academic (216 pp). Julie Starr Hamilton College In The Psychology of Overeating…
We recently received the following announcement of a new Master of Science degree in Culinary Arts and Science from Professor Jonathan Deutsch at Drexel University, which may be of…
We have a global and eclectic collection of readings for you this week, with a lot of hidden treasures among the links. See below. If you are inspired…
Rachel Black President, Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition Connecticut College Last week, I had the opportunity to attend the John Dewey Kitchen Institute at the University…