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Food, Culture, and Society

Food, Culture, and Society is the journal of the Association for the Study of Food and Society. It has been published since 1996, but before 2004 it was known as The Journal for the Study of Food and Society.

Here are the Tables of Contents from some recent issues:

 

FCS Volume 11:1

Contents

From the Editor

Creating Home: Food, Ethnicity and Gender among Italians in Belgium since 1946.
Leen Beyers

'From Wharfie Haunt to Foodie Haven': Modernity and Law in the Transformation of the Australian Working-Class Pub
Diane Kirkby

Society of the Appetite: Celebrity Chefs Deliver Consumers
Signe Hansen

If It Ain’t Alberta, It Ain’t Beef: local food, regional identity, (inter)national politics
Gwendolyn Blue

The Myth of the Green Fairy: Distilling the Scientific Truth about Absinthe
Kima Cargill

Exploring the Ethical Limitations and Potential of Aesthetic Experiences of Food and Eating in Vegetarian Cookbooks
Robyn Smith

Book Reviews

Leslie A. Duram. Good Growing: Why Organic Farming Works. Reviewed by Robin O’Sullivan

John Keay. The Spice Route: A History. Reviewed by Neil L. Coletta

Georgina Holt and Matthew Reed, eds. Sociological Perspectives of Organic Agriculture: From Pioneer to Policy. Reviewed by Fiona Louden

David Kamp, The United States of Arugula: How We Became a Gourmet Nation. Reviewed by Sabrina Small

Michelle de La Pradelle, Market Day in Provence, translated by Amy Jacobs. Reviewed by Carol Price Spurling

Doris Friedensohn, Eating As I Go: Scenes from America and Abroad. Reviewed by Janice D. Schultz

John Van Willigen and Anne Van Willigen. Food and Everyday Life: On
Kentucky Family Farms 1920-1950
. Reviewed by Marcus Aldredge

Contributors

 

 

FCS 11:2 (2008) Special Issue: Food Journeys: Culinary Travels in Time and Space

Contents

Introduction
Daisy Tam and Nicola Frost

Caviar and Toast
Alasdair Pettinger

The Hawaiian Luau: Food as Tradition, Transgression, Transformation and Travel
Kaori O’Connor

‘Strange People But They Sure Can Cook!’ An Indonesian Women’s Group in Sydney
Nicola Frost

The Dangers of Foreign Bodies: Contamination of Travelers in and out of Nepal.
Sharon Hepburn

Slow Journeys: What Does It Mean To Go Slow?
Daisy Tam

The Performance of the Meal in Seventeenth Century French Travel Accounts to New France: from Hospitality to Hybridity
Catherine Briand

Book Reviews

Oscar Caballero, Text and Pretext in Textures: elBulli, Soler & Adrià in context. Reviewed by Signe Hansen

Laura Shapiro, Julia Child. Reviewed by Dana Polan

Daniel Imhoff and Jo Ann Baumgartner, eds. Farming and the Fate of Wild Nature: Essays in Conservation-Based Agriculture. Reviewed by Emily Wakild

Colin Spencer. British Food: An Extraordinary Thousand Years of History. Reviewed by Merry White.

Contributors

 

FCS Volume 11:3 (2008) Special Issue on Canadian Food Studies

Contents

Introduction: “A Double-double and a Maple-Glazed Doughnut”
Elaine Power and Mustafa Koc, guest editors

Invited Commentaries: Issues in Canadian Food Studies
Josee Johnston, editor

Struggles for the ‘Up and Coming’: Challenges Facing New Food Scholars and Food Scholarship
Josee Johnston

Healthy New Foods, Healthy Population? Regulation, Marketing, and a Critical Gap in Food Studies
Valerie Tarasuk

A Global Outlook on Food Studies
Jennifer Clapp

The Cuisine of the Tundra: Towards a Canadian Food Culture at Expo 67
Rhona Richman Kenneally

Tracing Social Change Among the Labrador Inuit and Inuit-Métis: What Does the Nutrition Literature Tell Us?
Maura Hanrahan

‘A Poor Man’s Meal’: Molasses in Atlantic Canada
Diane Tye

Consuming Food and Constructing Identities among Arabic and South Asian Immigrant Women
Helen Vallianatos and Kim Raine

Mandarin Peelings and Lola’s Tinola: Exploring Subjectivity and Belonging through Cultural Food Narratives
Jacqui Gingras and Lara Tiro


Book Reviews

John, Fourth Marquis of Bute, Moorish Recipes. Reviewed by Anne Meneley

Korsmeyer, Carolyn (ed.) The Taste Culture Reader: Experiencing Food and Drink,. Reviewed by Diana Ambrozas

Sarah R. Labensky and Alan M. House with Steven Labensky and Priscilla Martel,
On Cooking: A Textbook of Culinary Fundamentals, Fourth Edition. Reviewed by Annette M. Tomei.

Andrew F. Smith, Encyclopedia of Junk Food and Fast Food. Reviewed by Leslie A. Duram.

Contributors

 


One back issue is currently available here. It is Volume 6, Number 1 of The Journal for the Study of Food and Society, in PDF format.

Front Inside Cover (11 k)

Table of Contents (69 k)

Journal Officers (85 k)

Instructions to Authors (71 k)

"The Geography of Food" -- Derek Shanahan, Millersville University (93 k)

"Fragments for a New Urban Culinary Geography" -- David Bell, Staffordshire University (144 k)

"Protecting and Connecting: Separation, Connection, and the U.S. Dairy Economy 1840-2002" -- Daniel R. Block, Chicago State University (128 k)

"U.S.-Based Community Food Security: Influences, Practice, Debate" -- Anne C. Bellows and Michael W. Hamm, Rutgers University (183 k)

"Chile Peppers and Identity Construction in Pueblo, Colorado" -- Terrence W. Haverluk, United States Air Force Academy (1.43MB)

"'Strong Men and Women Are Not Products of Improper Food': Domestic Science and the History of Eating and Identity" -- Charlotte Biltekoff, Brown University (first page only, 56 k)

"To Serve the 'Other': Chinese-American Immigrants in the Restaurant Business" -- Netta Davis, Boston University (1.43 MB)

"Food and Health in the BahaĠi Faith" -- Paul Fieldhouse, University of Manitoba (115 k)

"Something's Kosher Here!: Foodways Among Jewish Brooklyn College Nutrition Students" --
Annie Hauck-Lawson, Brooklyn College (105 k)

"Review of Jakle's and Sculle's Fast Food: Roadside Restaurants in the Automobile Age" -- John Morrison McLarnon III, Millersville University (81 k)

Conference Abstracts (295 k)

Additional back issues will be added as they become available.

 


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