Painting a picture of historical acts of giving aid or writing about hunger and culinary deficits in an empathetic and respectful manner, these papers nonetheless raise questions of power imbalances.

Stereotypes, myths and mockeries abound about what poor folks eat; these papers offer strategies for rewriting and recuperating foodways.

Contemporary food systems contain paradoxes: these papers consider inequitable distribution of resources and wasted surpluses, responses to those confronting food precarity, and how social worth can be valued beyond the…

Cultural memories are built through rituals and transferred through the generations, including remembrances of hunger and its culinary remedies.