Posts about food culture and food history – includes student projects, research, and publications – events, courses, etc.
Gastronomy Student Celine Glasier shares this post in our series “Perspectives from Anthropology of Food.” My grandmother lives in a very small town in the south of France called Montauroux. It’s a little, quaint community that is nestled on top of a hill. There are outdoor cafes in the town center where elderly men […]
Gastronomy student Corrine Williams provides another example of food mapping in our next post in our series “Perspectives from Anthropology of Food.” In the age of the internet, social media seems to gain more cultural significance every second. Images have always been integral to media, and with Instagram’s popularity it’s clear people enjoy the content. […]
We continue our series of posts from the Anthropology of Food class (ML 641) in which students reflect on current issues, discuss assignments they have worked on, or address topics of particular interest to them. Today’s post is from Gastronomy student Morrisa Engles. Cacao has carried deep cultural meaning since it was first domesticated. […]
Our summer series, Perspectives from Anthropology of Food, continues with this post from Gastronomy student Madoka Sasa. In the article “Anthropology of Food,” R. Kenji Tierney and Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney (2012, 118) describe blowfish consumption in Japan: Not all objectively “edible” items are regarded as food for a people, even in times of severe food shortages. […]
Dr. Ellen Rovner will teach MET ML 641, The Anthropology of Food, during the fall 2017 semester and has prepared this Course Spotlight. Anthropologists like to say that the study of anthropology makes the strange familiar and the familiar strange. Whether the “strange” is a Japanese Sumo wrestler’s eating habits, a medieval German nun’s […]