food studies

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Nov

Labeling “Healthy” Food

Xaq Frohlich, author of FROM LABEL TO TABLE, explores what it means to label food “healthy”.

17

Oct

Q&A with Merry (Corky) White & Benjamin Wurgaft

Wurgaft and White—son and mother—make delightful company as they guide us through everything from the birth of agriculture to the lamination in a croissant in modern-day Tokyo. From the origins of agriculture …

15

Sep

Q&A with Edward F. Fischer, author of Making Better Coffee

An anthropologist uncovers how “great coffee” depends not just on taste, but also on a complex system of values worked out among farmers, roasters, and consumers. What justifies the steep prices commanded …

21

May

Editor Spotlight: Meet Kate Marshall, Senior Editor of Anthropology, Food Studies, Latin American Studies

As part of our ongoing Editor Spotlight Series, we interviewed UC Press Editor Kate Marshall about her approach to acquiring in the fields of Anthropology, Food Studies, and Latin American Studies, and what …

20

Jul

Topological Suppositions

excerpted from Wilted: Pathogens, Chemicals, and the Fragile Future of the Strawberry Industry by Julie Guthman The appearance of Fusarium and Macrophomina in California’s strawberry fields, where they had supposedly never been before, …

24

May

Nuestra América: True Hemispheric Unification

This post is published in conjunction with the Latin American Studies Association congress in Boston. Check for other posts from the conference. #LASA2019y By Alyshia Gálvez, author ofEating NAFTA:Trade, Food Policies, and the Destruction of …

20

Mar

Food and Agriculture in the Anthropocene: A Q&A with Elementa Editor-in-Chief Alastair Iles

Alastair Iles is Editor-in-Chief, along with Anne Kapuscinski, of the Sustainability Transitions domain of UC Press’s open-access journal Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene. UC Press: Elementa has published extensively on food and …

25

Jul

Resources for Your Summer Research: Food Justice

As part of our “Resources for Your Summer Research” blog series, we present some of our recent titles that we think would be great additions to your Food Studies library. Happy reading! …

16

Jun

The Enduring Cart: On the Supermarket’s Persistence in the Internet Age

This guest post is published around the Joint Annual Meeting of the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society and the Association for the Study of Food and Society in Madison, WI, occurring June …

15

Jun

NAFTA is a Terrible Deal. Don’t Scrap NAFTA.

This guest post is published around the Joint Annual Meeting of the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society and the Association for the Study of Food and Society in Madison, WI, occurring June …