Tag: food anthropology
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Christmas Books
For Christmas this year, I got a little gift certificate from work, to spend at Amazon. What did I want? Well, books! I wrote about this a week or so ago, how my initial foray into selecting a few fun reads was stymied by the state of anthropology these days. I weep for it… but…
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Sourdough Culture
Having written up the ‘how-to’ of starting a sourdough culture, and the beginnings of a recipe set for it, I was asked about the nature of the sourdough starter. What’s going on in that jar of oozing, smelling, wonderful stuff? How does it work? Is it safe? And why did we stop using sourdough except…
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Food Anthropology: From the Beginning
I’ve been toying with this article for a while, and decided the only way to do it justice was to write a series of articles, rather than trying to cram it all into one place. It started, as so many of my ideas do, in a conversation between the First Reader and I. We were…
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Guilt is not the Special Sauce
I was standing in the kitchen processing meat in bulk, and mulling over shopping, the budget, and how we eat. I find something very satisfying in preparing food for my family, whether it is butchering down a big cut of cheap meat into meal-sized portions, which saves us on the food bill, or making a…
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Random Nibbles
Here’s a little, there’s a little… I’m head down in a research project at the moment. I’ll share this weekend. For now, I have a round-up of (mostly) food related articles for my readers to peruse. Food Anthropology Lengthy and interesting article on food, people, and the interconnections. We have to eat; we like to…