The Milk of Human Kindness by Penny Van Esterik
Sour Milk At the World Health Assembly (WHA) meetings in late May, 2018, the US delegation tried to water-down or dump a very mild resolution to confirm and…
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The Hidden Resilience of “Food Desert” Neighborhoods
[no-caption] David Williams/SAPIENS Even before Ashanté Reese and I reach the front gate, retired schoolteacher Alice Chandler is standing in the doorway of her brick home in Washington,…
Peeling Back the History of the Banana
[no-caption] Kevin Gorton/Getty Images This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. In a globalized world, we routinely move …
How an Archaeological Experiment Revealed California’s Ancient Past
San Nicolas Island, the most remote and one of the smallest of California’s Channel Islands, is more than 60 miles from the mainland. The seas around the island…
Ep. #18 What taste is made of: Brad Weiss talks pig farming and the meaning of food in America
“Livestock are essential to our lives. We live in a world that is saturated with livestock, and not just with the food that we eat, but with the…
Following a New Trail of Crumbs to Agriculture’s Origins
The world’s oldest bread crumbs found to date were excavated from the stone-lined fireplace in the center of this photo. Alexis Pantos It’s mid-August in 2013, and we…
Eating Culture: An Anthropological Guide to Food, Second Edition
Feast on this! We have just published a gorgeous new edition of Eating Culture: An Anthropological Guide to Food, with a full-colour interior and a range of new…
Digital Food Activism – a book review by Michelle Pentecost
Digital Food Activism Tanja Schneider, Karin Eli, Catherine Dolan and Stanley Ulijaszek (eds.) Routledge Series in Critical Food Studies, 2018, 234 pages A Swiss academic scans the…
Anthropology Bite Club
The first rule of Bite Club is that we’re going to talk about cookbooks. The second rule of Bite Club is I need some of ya’ll to…
What Clam Thermometers Tell Us About Past Climates
It’s mid-August, 2017, but the temperature in Unalaska, one of the Aleutian Islands that trails off of the western Alaskan coast, is a brisk 50 degrees Fahrenheit. Christine…
Maya Milpa Workshop at OSU’s Waterman Farm
Last Friday and Saturday, we hosted a workshop that invited students, faculty, and staff from Ohio State (as well as new friends from Kenyon College) to learn about…
Diagnosis where? Testing Pigs and Humans for T. solium cysticercosis in Uganda by Rebekah Thompson
Two live pigs being transported to a local butcher in Mukono district, Uganda Taenia solium is a zoonotic disease shared between humans and pigs. Humans become infected with…
Leigh Chavez-Bush’s “Chefs, Cuisine, and Convergence”
My dissertation explores media networks within the Chicago culinary industry. At three fieldwork sites I conducted participant observation and employee ethnography with media producers, chefs, and sof…
Bonobos Spied Sharing a Feast
Bonobos congregate around a male bonobo holding an African breadfruit to get a share of the meal. Barbara Fruth/LuiKotale Bonobo Project People are weird—at least compared to other…
How Chinese Immigrants Built—and Lost—a Shellfish Industry
Abalone, which were once abundant in the coastal waters of California, are now primarily cultivated on farms. Universal Images Group/Getty Images At a sleepy outpost in the Sierra…
Thesis Review: Placing the Apple
Please note: I am soliciting reviews of recent dissertations in the Anthropology of Food. So if you have written a recent thesis or would like to review one, you…
Book Review: Food, Power and Agency by Jürgen Martschukat and Bryant Simon
In Food, Power and Agency, editors Jürgen Martschukat and Bryant Simon bring together contributors to explore how food, power and agency contribute to the formation of ‘culinary capital’ a…
Cultivating Vitality
Tanzanians are redefining health and the forms of governance that might be promoted in its name. Tanzanians are witnessing the emergence a new configuration of plant-based therapies that…
Book Review: The Sociology of Food: Eating and the Place of Food in Society by Jean-Pierre Poulain
In The Sociology of Food: Eating and the Place of Food in Society, Jean-Pierre Poulain offers an account of how food has emerged as a new field within sociological…
Fish by Jennifer Lee Johnson
If you’ve seen Hubert Sauper’s (2004) documentary film Darwin’s Nightmare you may remember the stark contrast he draws between the sterile disassembly line of a factory producing Nile…
Thesis Review and Interview: Tacos, Gumbo, and Work
Photograph: Fernando Lopez Please note: As Associate Editor, I am soliciting reviews of recent dissertations in the Anthropology of Food. So if you have written a recent thesis or…
Can Rat Bones Solve an Island Mystery?
When I ask her “So how big are the rats?,” E. Grace Veatch, a graduate student in zooarchaeology at Emory University, smiles and immediately holds her hands apart…
Jeremy Morris: Cheesed off, but not because of sanctions: Russians adapt to immiseration as global capital increases its grip
With the constant, confusing, and often misinformed media noise around Russia, you would be forgiven for believing a number of unhelpfully distorting half-truths: that Russia has been a…
2017 Thomas Marchione Award Winner!
We are very happy to announce the 2017 winner of the Thomas Marchione Food-as-a-Human-Right Student Award. This annual prize is awarded to a student whose work continues and…