Review: Eat to Beat Depression and Anxiety
Drew Ramsey. Eat to Beat Depression and Anxiety: Nourish your Way to Better Mental Health in Six Weeks. Harper Wave/Harper Collins. New …
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: Anti-Diet
Christy Harrison Anti-Diet: Reclaim your Time, Money, Well-Being and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating. Little, Brown Spark. 2019. Pp. 326. ISBN: 0316420352 (Hardback). …
Review: The Other Milk
Jia-Chen Fu. The Other Milk: Reinventing Soy in Republican China. University of Washington Press. Seattle, 2018. ISBN: 978-0-295-74403-2. 276 pp. Tempest, Juliet …
Messer’s Postings
Ellen Messer, Ph.D. (Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy, Boston, MA) What’s new in food and nutrition research and …
Reminder: 2019 Thomas Marchione Award Deadline is July 26!
Do not miss this opportunity to have your work recognized! Graduate Students! Are you doing or have you recently completed research related …
Thomas Marchione Award 2019
Graduate Students! Are you doing or have you recently completed research related to food and human rights? Food security? Food justice? Do …
Creating Bodies, Creating a Nation: How the Idea of the Straight, White, Muscular Male Body Shaped America by Ketil Slagstad
Governing Bodies: American Politics and the Shaping of the Modern Physique Rachel Louise Moran University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. 224 pages. 1. …
What FoodAnthropology Is Reading Now, January 26, 2019
David Beriss A brief digest of food and nutrition-related items that caught our attention recently. Got items you think we should include? …
Thesis Review and Interview: Deorukhe Women’s Agency in the Making of Bodies, Cuisine, and Culture in Maharashtra, India
Photograph: Gauri A. Pitale – Waterlogged rice fields of rural Konkan, Maharashtra Please note: As Associate Editor, I am soliciting reviews of recent …
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 …
Healthy Eating Research Grants
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation sponsors a program called Healthy Eating Research through which they support research on healthy eating among children. …
Diet and the Disease of Civilization: An Interview with Adrienne Rose Bitar
In her recently published Diet and the Disease of Civilization, Dr. Adrienne Rose Bitar argues that diet books capture the socio-political …
What FoodAnthropology Is Reading Now, March 12, 2018
David Beriss A brief digest of food and nutrition-related items that caught our attention recently. Got items you think we should include? …
Tenure Track Assistant Professor of Public Health Nutrition
We just received this job announcement that will certainly be of interest to SAFN members! The Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences …
Culinary Catalysts and Scientific Shifts: Peruvian Quinoa in the Age of Genetics and Gastronomy
Chef Maguiña with Adam Gamwell. Property of Adam Gamwell. This episode of This Anthropological Life presents a little differently from our normal …
Culinary Catalysts and Scientific Shifts: Peruvian Quinoa in the Age of Genetics and Gastronomy
Chef Maguiña with Adam Gamwell. Property of Adam Gamwell. This episode of This Anthropological Life presents a little differently from our normal …
EM Thoughts and Readings!
Ellen Messer March 17–St. Patrick’s Day fell on a Friday during Lent, when Roman Catholics ordinarily forego meat. But this year the …
Research Methods for Anthropological Studies of Food and Nutrition! New Book Discount!
Edited by two former SAFN presidents and containing articles by many SAFN members, the new three volume set “Research Methods for Anthropological …
Panel Proposal, AAA 2017: Interdisciplinary Work in Food and Nutrition
This is an abstract for a panel for the AAA 2017 meetings in DC. Click here to see the CFP for the …
What EM Is Thinking
Frequent FoodAnthropology book reviewer Ellen Messer has sent us this eclectic collection of comments and insights into recent food and nutrition related …
Post Doc: Dietary transitions in Ghanaian cities
Post Doc Opportunity that may interest FoodAnthropology readers: PROJECT INFORMATION Title of project: Dietary transitions in Ghanaian cities: mapping the factors in the …
Introduction: The First Thousand Days of Life by Michelle Pentecost
(On behalf of the First Thousand Days Research Group (University of Cape Town)) “Good nutrition in the first 1000 days between a …
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 …