'Cookbooks. Menus. Ingredients. Dishes. Pots. Kitchens. Markets. Museum exhibitions. These objects, representations, and environments are part of what the volume calls the material cultures of food.' https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/bloomsbury-handbook-of-food-and-material-cultures-9781350148307/ #foodhistory #foodanthropology #materialculture
#FoodHistory #foodanthropology #MaterialCulture
Around the world, at least 2 billion people routinely consume insects. One anthropologist believes geography and colonization can explain why some populations are too squeamish to stomach such foods. https://www.sapiens.org/culture/eat-bugs/ #foodanthropology #entomophagy #foodhistory
#foodanthropology #entomophagy #FoodHistory
Perhaps a bit outdated, by #SidneyMintz's #foodanthropology work remains an important part of #foodstudies. Many of his papers and books are what brought me to the study of #foodhistory. It is a drag that so much of his work remains behind paywalls though. https://www.jstor.org/stable/4132873
#sidneymintz #foodanthropology #foodstudies #FoodHistory
Not for the faint of heart: 'Their entire diet for 2020 to 2021 — 100 per cent of it — came from their garden, raising chickens, pigs and other animals, and foraging from the land and sea.' https://canadiangeographic.ca/articles/out-of-the-grocery-store-and-onto-the-land/ #foodanthropology #hunting #gathering #farming #BC #Canada
#foodanthropology #hunting #gathering #farming #bc #canada
@Fparasecoli I am, and I hope the presence of #foodsovereignty and #foodanthropology folks among others increases quickly over here(s). I look forward to learning more about your work.
#foodsovereignty #foodanthropology
Anybody interested in #foodstudies #foodhistory #foodculture #foodpolitics #fooddesign #foodsustainability #foodsecurity #foodsystems #foodpolicy #foodanthropology #foodsovereignty #foodtech #foodwaste?
#foodstudies #foodhistory #foodculture #foodpolitics #fooddesign #foodsustainability #foodsecurity #foodsystems #foodpolicy #foodanthropology #foodsovereignty #foodtech #FoodWaste