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Exploring transgender transition and food socialization Food Cult. Soc. (IF 1.649) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Tobias Diewald, Juliane Yildiz, Stefan Wahlen
Food and eating habits contribute to gender differentiation. This article aims to empirically explore gender and food-related socialization of transgender individuals. We contemplate food and gende...
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Sugar-sweetened food, intergenerationality, and food moralities in urban Chinese families Food Cult. Soc. (IF 1.649) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Jianlin Xu
With the application of intergenerational theory as its analytical framework, this paper seeks to provide new insights into the social construction of sugar-sweetened food and food practices in the...
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Wining and dining out: on understanding restaurant wine lists Food Cult. Soc. (IF 1.649) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Florine Livat, Denton Marks, Hervé Remaud
Analysis of the cultural role of meals has a long history, and dining out is significant in that history as perhaps their most public and observable example. This paper examines a neglected feature...
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What’s in my mince? Reader responses to news coverage about novel plant-based protein foods Food Cult. Soc. (IF 1.649) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Michelle Phillipov, Emily A. Buddle, Sarah McLean, Rachel A. Ankeny
Plant-based protein products have recently become more prominent on Australian supermarket shelves. However, despite rapidly increasing interest in meat-free or reduced-meat diets, limited research...
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Access, dignity, and choice: social supermarkets and the end of the food bank model in the UK? Food Cult. Soc. (IF 1.649) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Ronald Ranta, Nevena Nancheva, Hilda Mulrooney, Dee Bhakta, Stef Lake
Levels of food insecurity (FI) and the need for food support have increased dramatically since the COVID-19 pandemic and the cost-of-living crisis. These crises also enabled substantial innovation ...
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The food-gender-cities nexus: a research agenda Food Cult. Soc. (IF 1.649) Pub Date : 2024-02-25 Chiara Bergonzini
Social sciences are paying increasing attention to the questions of gender equality and food systems. Both topics are recognized to have a strong urban dimension. However, urban sociology has not y...
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Useful but overused? The “plate model” as a food educational tool in home economics Food Cult. Soc. (IF 1.649) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Gita Berg, Eva Lundqvist, Ylva Mattsson Sydner
The plate model is widely used to promote healthy eating. Despite extensive adoption in dietary guidelines, the model’s role in food educational practices is scarcely studied. The present study aim...
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Food practices as informing religious identity and connections in Oguta, Southeastern Nigeria Food Cult. Soc. (IF 1.649) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Lawrence N. Okwuosa, Anuli B. Okoli, Christopher N. Ibenwa, Ambrose O. Iheanacho, Joy Ezugwu
There is an increasing awareness of African Traditional Religion and cultures in terms of identification, preservation, documentation and celebration mostly in the areas of festivals, masquerades, ...
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Peeling back the artichoke leaves: symbolism and origin stories in Jewish-Roman Cuisine Food Cult. Soc. (IF 1.649) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Sean Wyer
Jewish-Roman cuisine, the traditional food of one of Europe’s longest-standing Jewish communities, is among Italy’s most distinctive hyper-local repertoires. Gastronomes increasingly acknowledge th...
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Foodways and culinary identity in Iranian-American memoirs Food Cult. Soc. (IF 1.649) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Erfan Rajabi
The current study aims at exploring the issue of foodways in three Iranian-American memoirs, namely, Gelareh Asayesh’s Saffron Sky, Firoozeh Dumas’ Funny in Farsi, and Davar Ardalan’s My Name is Ir...
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Creative tea tourism in Asian tea villages Food Cult. Soc. (IF 1.649) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Lee Jolliffe, Moe Nakashima, Jirawan Chaikor, Pairach Piboonrungroj
Tea has a long history connected to many creative pursuits including but not limited to art, literature, story-telling, cultural ceremonies, cuisine and gastronomy. Creativity and related creative ...
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Cultural flavors: embracing food studies in second language content courses Food Cult. Soc. (IF 1.649) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Veronica Menaldi
This article argues for the continued collaboration of food studies and second language studies. By introducing a variety of food related concepts in language courses, particularly upper-level cont...
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Vegan labor: the intensification of family foodwork at the intersection of dietary and gender norms Food Cult. Soc. (IF 1.649) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Edmée Ballif
Drawing from a case study of child veganism in Switzerland, I bring together parenting culture studies and food studies to ask how veganism relates to the ideology of intensive mothering. Describin...
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Special issue introduction: culinary tourism across time and place Food Cult. Soc. (IF 1.649) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Shayan S. Lallani
Culinary tourism – and cultural tourism more broadly – gained tremendous momentum in the late twentieth century. Despite challenges posed by the global COVID-19 pandemic, culinary tourism continues...
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A blessing or a curse? Culinary discourses on convenience food in Ireland during the 1960s and 1970s Food Cult. Soc. (IF 1.649) Pub Date : 2024-02-11 Marzena Keating
Based on a qualitative content analysis of selected Irish local and national newspapers as well as women’s magazines, this paper explores discursive construction of convenience foods in Ireland dur...
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From diversity to uniformity: comparing nutritional transition of food consumption in four regions in Senegal Food Cult. Soc. (IF 1.649) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Babatunde Owolodun, Desiree Gmür, Selina Felber, Camille Ollier, Tobias Haller, Sonja Merten
Rapid changes in the social and economic environment in the last few decades have resulted in a nutrition transition observed in many African countries, revealing large shifts in diet. Central to t...
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Foodism in Ireland: feeding foodie philosophy or showing a shift in contemporary food culture? Food Cult. Soc. (IF 1.649) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Sinéad Reil, Kathleen Farrell
This paper examines contemporary food culture in Ireland through the phenomenon of foodism and the habits and traits expressed through the subculture of foodies. Elements and actors of the Irish fo...
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Precarious foodscapes: life, caring, digitization, and labor in the face of deepening food crises Food Cult. Soc. (IF 1.649) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Christine Barnes, Benjamin Schrager
In the face of deepening environmental and economic crises, the concept of precarity helps to draw out the grave problems that permeate contemporary foodscapes. In this special issue introduction, ...
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Eating with children: a practice theoretical study of foodwork in transitioning to parenthood Food Cult. Soc. (IF 1.649) Pub Date : 2024-01-27 Irmak Karademir Hazır
This paper explores how the transition to parenthood reshapes foodwork in families by drawing on ethnographic, longitudinal research conducted with parents of young children in the south-east of En...
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Media-ting Austerity Feeding: second-hand Infant Food Exchange Online in Canada Food Cult. Soc. (IF 1.649) Pub Date : 2024-01-21 Lesley Frank
This paper makes visible austerity-based infant food exchange as a contemporary food acquisition practice outside of commercial and regulated foodscapes. It presents results from a netnography cond...
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High-school students’ demonstration of systems thinking in the context of sustainable food systems Food Cult. Soc. (IF 1.649) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Mingla Charoenmuang, Neil A. Knobloch, Hannah H. Scherer
Systems thinking abilities are needed to help solve complex food systems problems. However, high-school instruction does not typically support students in developing these abilities, and most stude...
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Navigating precarious foodscapes: discourses and everyday practices of eating chicken meat in Japan Food Cult. Soc. (IF 1.649) Pub Date : 2024-01-14 Benjamin Schrager
As consumers grow distanced from food production, prominent discourses increasingly emphasize the importance of ethical food. These dynamics are indicative of precarious foodscapes, a concept that ...
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Ensorceled food: navigating domestic social power and control in early modern Malta Food Cult. Soc. (IF 1.649) Pub Date : 2024-01-14 Noel Buttigieg
Ensorceled Food: Social power and control in early modern Malta. If conviviality carries inherent meanings of power and control, then food activates those emotions that generate a reciprocal unders...
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Episodes of cannibalism between Christians and Muslims from the eleventh to the thirteenth century. Cases of dehumanization and hyper-humanization Food Cult. Soc. (IF 1.649) Pub Date : 2024-01-07 Andrea Maraschi
This paper aims at analyzing episodes of cannibalism which are featured in medieval chronicles of military encounters between Christians and Muslims from the eleventh to the early thirteenth centur...
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Flavored tears, soylent, and ecological commensality Food Cult. Soc. (IF 1.649) Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Nina Augustynowicz
To Flavour Our Tears, an art project consisting mostly of unusual recipes, and Soylent, a meal replacement system available to individual consumers, are two representatives of recent food trends th...
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Minding your manners in the Gilded Age Food Cult. Soc. (IF 1.649) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Claire Stewart
Etiquette manuals may be used as a tool in which to investigate the intricacies associated with dining during the Gilded Age. An exploration of these dining habits, using historic etiquette manuals...
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Street food in Greece through the eyes of foreign visitors Food Cult. Soc. (IF 1.649) Pub Date : 2024-01-01 Antonia-Leda Matalas, Georgios Lazaridis
Street food eating and the mood it brings with it has become a characteristic of urban space in many societies. The present study moves between the cultural, social, and economic dimensions of stre...
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A surfeit of lampreys – a true story or a myth? Food Cult. Soc. (IF 1.649) Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Andrzej K. Kuropatnicki
Lampreys were considered a delicacy among most royal families and the nobility in medieval Britain. The tradition was for the people to present the monarch with a lamprey pie once a year. King Henr...
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The alembic and the coffeepot. The brandy house in 18th century Italy Food Cult. Soc. (IF 1.649) Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Mario Grassi
This article contributes to the discourse on “public houses” in the early modern period by introducing into the debate a type of establishment widely spread in Italy: the so-called bottega da acqua...
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Standing out and fitting in: Korean coffee entrepreneurs’ strategies for survival Food Cult. Soc. (IF 1.649) Pub Date : 2023-12-20 Nate Ming Curran, Felicia Istad, Michael Chesnut
Prompted by the meteoric increase in the number of coffee shops in South Korea over the past two decades, this article explores the various strategies that coffee shop entrepreneurs in Seoul adopt ...
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Street food in Brazil: food styles in the daily life of a Brazilian city Food Cult. Soc. (IF 1.649) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Rogéria Campos de Almeida Dutra
As a global phenomenon street food plays a significant role in urban food consumption. Connected with everyday life of city dwellers it has become popular as a cheap alternative to ready-to-eat foo...
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To feed a town —the operation of the Maribor food market, 1910–2020 Food Cult. Soc. (IF 1.649) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Maja Godina Golija
The Maribor food market which has been operating in the city center since the 13th century, is one of the city’s most important food providers. On market days, local people, farmers, urban and subu...
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Serving hot cakes and hashtags: how two popular resort towns entice LGBTQ+ tourists with food and drink on social media Food Cult. Soc. (IF 1.649) Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Edward A. Chamberlain
As the study of food culture has expanded, researchers have taken to examining the relationality of eating practices and social identities in media contexts. Employing an integrative approach to st...
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Re-exploring the rural/urban dichotomy: farm shops in urban settings Food Cult. Soc. (IF 1.649) Pub Date : 2023-12-12 Håkan Jönsson
The division between rural and urban values and practices is a classic theme in disciplines such as European ethnology. During the last decades, the urban/rural divide seem to be renegotiated. Trad...
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“For us women, flavor work is king”: gender, saf sap and flavor work in urban Senegal Food Cult. Soc. (IF 1.649) Pub Date : 2023-12-12 Branwyn Poleykett
Over the past decade home cooking in the Senegalese city of Dakar has come to be dominated by culinary practices of saf sap: the incorporation of new commodities and flavor enhancers and the invent...
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“It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas”: exploring the sensescapes of food experiences in Tivoli Food Cult. Soc. (IF 1.649) Pub Date : 2023-12-06 Martin Trandberg Jensen, Francesc Fusté-Forné
Set within the unexplored context of Tivoli in Copenhagen, we adapt a mixed-method approach relying on multimodal data and impressionistic storytelling, to qualitatively explore the material stagin...
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Lunchbox shaming: recollections of school lunchtime by young Canadians of Asian descent Food Cult. Soc. (IF 1.649) Pub Date : 2023-12-03 Yukari Seko, Clara Juando-Prats, Veen Wong, Lina Rahouma, Jessica Yu, Nayanee Henry-Noel
Children’s home-packed lunches to school reflect family’s culinary cultures, social locations, and unique food norms. At Canadian elementary schools, children of Asian heritage sometimes experience...
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Editorial Food Cult. Soc. (IF 1.649) Pub Date : 2023-12-04 Sukhmani Khorana
Published in Food, Culture & Society: An International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research (Vol. 26, No. 5, 2023)
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Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency Food Cult. Soc. (IF 1.649) Pub Date : 2023-12-04 Kamran Abbasi, Parveen Ali, Virginia Barbour, Thomas Benfield, Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, Gregory E. Erhabor, Stephen Hancocks, Richard Horton, Laurie Laybourn-Langton, Robert Mash, Peush Sahni, Wadeia Mohammad Sharief, Paul Yonga, Chris Zielinski
Published in Food, Culture & Society: An International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research (Vol. 26, No. 5, 2023)
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A new hunger: food shortages and satires of the state in Cuban and Egyptian cultural production Food Cult. Soc. (IF 1.649) Pub Date : 2023-12-03 Eman S. Morsi
This paper delineates a distinctly post-1960s expression of hunger and desire for food in Cuban and Egyptian cultural production. Hunger has always been present in aesthetic renditions of everyday ...
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‘Samin Nosrat’s Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: cooking on TV gets a decolonial makeover’ Food Cult. Soc. (IF 1.649) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Sukhmani Khorana
With the proliferation of food-based content on streaming platforms like Netflix and the decolonial turn in food studies, feminism and media studies, we see the emergence of programs that deviate f...
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The kitchen rediscovered: the effects of the lockdown on domestic food consumption and dietary patterns in early pandemic Italy Food Cult. Soc. (IF 1.649) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Maria Giovanna Onorati, Paolo Corvo, Paola Durelli, Michele Filippo Fontefrancesco
Italy was among the first countries worldwide and the first in Europe to implement a complete lockdown to curb the spread of the coronavirus. This two-month lockdown significantly disrupted daily r...
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Sovereign at heart: photovoice, food mapping and giving back in Alberni-Clayoquot Food Cult. Soc. (IF 1.649) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Meagan J. Curtis, Janette Bulkan, Tammara Soma
This article reflects on a year-long project that used both photovoice and food asset mapping methods in the Alberni-Clayoquot Region of British Columbia, Canada. Following others who emphasize rec...
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Bread alarm in Brussels, 1840. Understanding and theorizing the development of food scares Food Cult. Soc. (IF 1.649) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Peter Scholliers
In Brussels in February 1840, Piotr Kopczynski published a series of three newspaper articles that caused a commotion because they took seriously the rumors about bread that caused gastrointestinal...
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Multicultural commodification in New York City’s culinary field: resistance among Mexican Indigenous chefs Food Cult. Soc. (IF 1.649) Pub Date : 2023-11-26 Axel G. Elías Jiménez
This article is situated in the intersections of Indigenous, migration, and food studies. The article is guided by the questions: How have New York City (NYC) media used Mexican Indigeneity to prom...
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Producing rice, eating tradition? A multiscalar ricescape in Hong Kong Food Cult. Soc. (IF 1.649) Pub Date : 2023-11-19 Yuk Wah Chan, Johnny Hoi Lung Lau
Hong Kong was not only a place where rice had been widely grown to support its own population, but had also once produced rice for overseas markets. However, rice production had declined rapidly si...
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Food hospitality and the negotiation of subjectivities through meals in the context of migration: case studies from Belgium Food Cult. Soc. (IF 1.649) Pub Date : 2023-11-12 Alice Clarebout, Elsa Mescoli
This article focuses on the ways in which food enables undocumented migrants to find a place in the context of forced displacement, transit mobility and unstable settlement. The analysis is based o...
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The contested politics of food banking in the United States Food Cult. Soc. (IF 1.649) Pub Date : 2023-11-12 Joshua Lohnes
Rising out of the devolution of public services to private actors during the Reagan administration, the food banking economy in the United States is now a multi-billion-dollar industry. The social ...
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“The uniqueness of one apple versus another.” Exploring producer perspectives of hard cider in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic United States Food Cult. Soc. (IF 1.649) Pub Date : 2023-10-25 Martha D. Calvert, Clinton L. Neill, Amanda C. Stewart, Elizabeth A. B. Chang, Susan R. Whitehead, Jacob Lahne
Hard cider is growing in popularity throughout the United States (US). Though many scholars have investigated quality and trends in the expanding US cider industry, still little is known about cide...
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Food resignification practices among refugees at the margins of Rome Food Cult. Soc. (IF 1.649) Pub Date : 2023-10-29 Giovanna Palutan, Donatella Schmidt
The aim of our article is to explore the meaning of food for refugees and volunteers settled in emergency contexts in the city of Rome. We will look at ways in which refugees rephrase their experie...
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The magic is in the mix: a uses and gratifications approach to the cross-media use of food-related media content Food Cult. Soc. (IF 1.649) Pub Date : 2023-10-25 Isabelle Cuykx, Paulien Decorte, Lauranna Teunissen, Heidi Vandebosch, Hilde Van den Bulck, Sara Pabian, Kathleen Van Royen, Charlotte De Backer
Food media content has recently grown tremendously in quantity and types. To understand food media’s popularity and the role they play for their audience members, this paper applies a uses and grat...
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Paving over taquerias to put up condos: constructing urban imaginaries of migrant foodscapes via digital food narratives Food Cult. Soc. (IF 1.649) Pub Date : 2023-10-23 Colleen Hammelman, Consuelo Carr Salas, Sara Tornabene
In this paper, we explore the social construction of place through a close analysis of the language used in online reviews to describe migrant-owned or -serving restaurants and their neighborhoods ...
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Feeding a tourism boom: changing food practices and systems of provision in Hoi An, Vietnam Food Cult. Soc. (IF 1.649) Pub Date : 2023-10-23 Arve Hansen, Outi Pitkänen, Binh Nguyen
While food studies have increasingly gone beyond the “Western” experience in food globalization processes, research on food and tourism has often prioritized the (Western) tourist’s gaze. In the li...
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The political dimension of food in Spain. A taxonomy of civic and political actions Food Cult. Soc. (IF 1.649) Pub Date : 2023-10-15 Amparo Novo, Carmen Lozano-Cabedo
Food has become a privileged space for analyzing different forms of citizen participation. This paper reviews typologies of political participation to determine which of them is more useful to clas...
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Urban foodways and social sustainability: neighborhood restaurants as social infrastructure Food Cult. Soc. (IF 1.649) Pub Date : 2023-10-05 James Farrer
The concept of social sustainability presents many questions for food studies, both about how communities sustain foodways, and how foodways sustain communities. Based on an ethnographic study of r...
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The diasporic meatscapes of the Tamil community in Toronto: how immigrants reconfigure food environments and infrastructures to secure a taste of home Food Cult. Soc. (IF 1.649) Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Michaël Bruckert
Although scholars have studied how people navigate their foodscapes, little research has addressed together the way immigrants experience and shape their food environments. This article explores ho...
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Editor’s Note 26(4) Food Cult. Soc. (IF 1.649) Pub Date : 2023-09-24 Megan J. Elias
Published in Food, Culture & Society: An International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research (Vol. 26, No. 4, 2023)
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Charlas culinarias (culinary chats): A methodology and pedagogy expanding a food consciousness Food Cult. Soc. (IF 1.649) Pub Date : 2023-09-26 Meredith E. Abarca
Charlas culinarias as methodology and pedagogy, simply put, is about democratizing knowledge to impact the formation of a food consciousness. It is through the development of a food consciousness t...
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Romantic Narratives on Nature and Environment in Meat-Focused Food Documentaries Food Cult. Soc. (IF 1.649) Pub Date : 2023-09-27 Andreja Vezovnik
The article looks at the discourses of five selected Western food documentaries released in the last decade that deal with meat production and animal agriculture and their impact on the environment...
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Food matters and materialities: critical understandings of food cultures Food Cult. Soc. (IF 1.649) Pub Date : 2023-09-24 Myriam Durocher, Irena Knezevic
Published in Food, Culture & Society: An International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research (Vol. 26, No. 4, 2023)