The papers in this session share a focus on the communication and transmission of knowledge and beliefs about cooking, nutrition, and How can ostensible information be modified and transformed by…

Together these papers ask what is being transmitted – besides nutrients – in the act of feeding and eating. What are the affective elements of food production, distribution, and dining?…

This session looks at different systematizations of elemental theory as it relates to the culinary. The papers focus on the development of systems ranging from the physiological (Greek humoralism, Ayurveda,…

These papers address the management and manipulation of elemental conditions affecting sea travel, farming the land, and facing changing environmental conditions. How can technology and other forms of knowledge implementation…