Resistance Is Fertile!
from Gastronomica 14:4 The practices of everyday commensality—producing, provisioning, and consuming food and drink in the West Bank of Palestine—are radically affected by the Israeli occupation. I...
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from Gastronomica 15:1 Sitka, Alaska resident Jim Michener knows that spring has arrived by the sentinel smell of a natural phenomenon he compares to stampeding herds in the Serengeti or bygone...
View ArticleBanking on Wild Relatives to Feed the World
Abstract: Crop wild relatives, the progenitors and kin of domesticated crop species, promise breeders a potent weapon against climate change. Having evolved outside the pampered environs of farms, wild...
View ArticleAn Interview with James C. Scott
from Gastronomica 15:3 SOAS FOOD STUDIES CENTRE DISTINGUISHED LECTURE On December 11, 2014, James C. Scott, Sterling Professor of Political Science and Professor of Anthropology and founding director...
View ArticleFor Oompa-Loompas, Orange Was the New Black
Abstract: For some, Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a story made of pure imagination. For others, it is emblematic of colonial ideology since the Oompa-Loompas were originally...
View ArticleFood, Bodies, and the “Stuff” of (Not) Eating in Anorexia
Abstract: The diverse materialities that form part of lived experiences of mental ill-health and its treatment have been largely overlooked in research. Arguing that such a focus is key to enhancing...
View ArticlePodcast Dispatches from Issue 21.1: Amy Bentley
For our fourth series of podcasts produced in collaboration with Meant to Be Eaten on Heritage Radio Network, we sit down (virtually) with authors who have contributed to our upcoming first issue of...
View ArticlePodcast Dispatches from Issue 21.2: Rob Connoley
For our fifth series of podcasts produced in collaboration with Meant to Be Eaten on Heritage Radio Network, we sit down (virtually) with authors who have contributed to our upcoming second issue of...
View ArticlePodcast Dispatches from Issue 21.2: Alison Hope Alkon & Rafi Grosglik
For our fifth series of podcasts produced in collaboration with Meant to Be Eaten on Heritage Radio Network, we sit down (virtually) with authors who have contributed to our recently published second...
View ArticlePodcast Dispatches from Issue 21.2: Eric Funabashi
For our fifth series of podcasts produced in collaboration with Meant to Be Eaten on Heritage Radio Network, we sit down (virtually) with authors who have contributed to our recently published second...
View Article“Translating the Foods of the World”– A Call for Translations and Reflections...
Gastronomica is pleased to introduce a new journal section with an exclusive focus on translation(s). Even recipes written in English a century ago need contextualization (if not actual translation of...
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