Early modern Europeans deemed chillis and pulque as foods of the poor, with different paths to valorization. The lower classes in Europe consumed chillis shortly after introduction, but chillis were…

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.

The Bedouin of Northern Saudi Arabia have long managed resources in a harsh environment; can there be lessons learned to prepare for scenarios of global warming or cooling?

Whether disfavored groups are producing meals in environments of chronic constraint or middle-class households are reacting to crisis brought about by war, these papers argue that power structures, whether state…

Cultural labelings of foodstuffs as "poverty food" may suddenly be elevated into "superfoods," and the consequences of such revisions.

This well-packed panel explores the fluid nature of cultural associations with foodstuffs, repurposing and revaluing ingredients and dishes for different audiences.

The world is littered with do-gooders and colonial enslavers who impose foods and diets, occasionally the economically/racially colonized refuse and revolt.

Poverty and its implications for food finds expression in literature throughout the ages, from the Old Testament, through the ancient Roman world and into modern times in these papers.