Live

  Finding familiar foods when one is away from home, especially when part of a diaspora community, can challenge the outsider to find new ways of enacting innate rituals to…

  The "discovery" of food as an academic subject and well as increasing prominence in popular culture and discourse has created new technologies, organizational structures, and venues for talking about…

  These papers explore how French writers have deeply engrained notions of what hospitality is (or should be) and have trained gimlet eyes on those opening their homes and establishments…

  A cuisine is a structured culinary system with implicit and, occasionally, explicit rules that are understood by those in the group to delineate "us" from "them." In this time-zone…

  These (partially) observational studies explore dining rules and rituals as expressions of life skills, whether metaphoric or literal. The Holocaust survivors (over)feed grandchildren to ward away acute hardships, the…

  Holiday foods are often thought the most conservative: certain foods (or their close analogues) must be eaten to commemorate tradition. But when populations move or new powers become a…

  Discourses around what we "should" eat can be metonyms for larger cultural issues. In the case of meat traditions versus vegetarianism/veganism, racial, religious, and social justice tensions lie just…

  Bread is central to Western cultures, whether through its profound and distinct religious meanings, its role as a staple food, or its diversity and use as an ethnic marker.…