Gastronomy is no longer just about what is served on a dish — local cuisine and marketing merge to tell a story to the world.
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Peru’s culinary popularity masks shocking inequality and food insecurity among the country’s indigenous peoples.
Long stereotyped as food for the poor, the local delicacy’s gastronomical stature has grown as foodies flock to Oaxaca, Mexico, to sample the crunchy snack.
Can automated restaurants still be community and cultural spaces, or will they become feeding stations for humans? These and other questions loom, as AI and robot cooks reach the market.
While “Black Canada” is a useful blanket term and important organizing identity, a closer look reveals a detailed tapestry of communities that also deserves visibility.
While a Florida curriculum implies that enslaved Africans ‘benefited’ from skills acquired through slavery, history shows they brought knowledge and skills to the US that predate their captivity.
My research on chefs’ mental health shows restaurants valorise isolation, abuse and violence – but The Bear avoids idealising this obsessive mindset.
Today, chefs – and some women chefs too – are listened to, admired and respected. But it wasn’t always that way.
Humans have figured out how to season their food with virtually every part of plants.
By reflecting on the violent origins of the Canadian sugar industry, we can bring wider attention to the exploitation underpinning the history of Canadian cuisine.
Viewed from Cairo, the war in Ukraine poses an existential threat to something Egyptians can’t do without: abundant, cheap bread.
Palm oil is one of the 21st century’s most contentious agricultural commodities, but its relationship with humans goes back thousands of years.
When the British government expelled Chagos Islanders from their homeland, it put a unique culture at risk of erasure.
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Vice President of Academic Affairs and Dean of the College, Grinnell College
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Senior Lecturer, Anthropology, Goldsmiths, University of London
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Senior Lecturer in Marketing and Strategy, Cardiff University
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Professor of History, University of Regina
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Associate Professor of Geography, University of South Carolina
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Professor of Anthropology of Migration, University of Edinburgh
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Professor of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Miami University
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Associate Professor, Faculty of Humanities, McMaster University
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Enseignante-chercheuse, GEM
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Professor of Philosophy, California Polytechnic State University
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Professor of Anthropology, The Ohio State University
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Assistant Professor of Marketing, University of Birmingham
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Full Marketing Professor, Department of Economic and Administrative Sciences, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC)