You and I Eat The Same

MAD, Edited by Chris Ying

Much of the ways in which we discuss foods of different ethnic regions is grounded in it's singularity and distinctiveness. You and I Eat the Same explores intriguing observations on how the ways in which we cook and eat across different cultures might be more alike than we think. Explore the notion of how 'Everybody Wraps Meat in Flatbread', why 'There Is No Such Thing as a Nonethnic Restaurant' and more in nineteen insightful and engaging essays and stories.

Food and Culture Reading List

Darra Goldstein

A reading list curated by Darra Goldstein, founding editor of Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture, The California Studies in Food and Culture series, considers the relationship between food and culture from a range of disciplines and approaches including anthropology, sociology, history, economics, philosophy, and women's studies. The series seeks to broaden the audience for serious scholarship as well as to celebrate food as a means of understanding the world. 

The Social Archaelogy of Food

Christine A. Hastorf

 Taking a deep dive exploration into the social life of food and the role it has played in shaping human societies, The Social Archaeology of Food draws from archaeological case studies from the European and Near Eastern Neolithic, Han China, ancient Cahokia, Classic Maya, the Inka and many other periods and regions, to ask how the meal in particular has acted as a social agent in the formation of society, economy, culture and identity.