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Sicilian ice-cream in a bread bun. A good solution to a local problem: the Mediterranean heat quickly melts the ice-cream, which is absorbed by the bread.
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Food and Religion
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Food and Spirituality

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Taboo Food and Drink . . . 
Fasting
Festival Foods
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In the news . . .

  • Anthropophagy

  • Bell, Rudolph M. Holy Anorexia. University Of Chicago Press, 1987.

  • Bynum Walker, Caroline. Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women. University of California Press, 1988.

  • Cooper, John. Eat and Be Satisfied: A Social History of Jewish Food. Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson, 1993.

  • Fernandez-Armesto, Felipe. Near a Thousand Tables: A History of Food. NY: The Free Press, 2002.

  • Garrett, Catherine. Beyond Anorexia: Narrative, Spirituality and Recovery. Cambridge University Press, 1998.

  • Harris, Patricia, David Lyon, and Sue McLaughlin. 2005. The Meaning of Food: The Companion to the PBS Televisio Series Hosted by Marchs Samuelsson. Guilford, CT: The Globe Pequot, 2005.

  • It’s Time for a New Relationship With Food -- Leo Babauta

  • Lelwica, Michelle Mary. Starving For Salvation: The Spiritual Dimensions of Eating Problems among American Girls and Women. Oxford University Press, 2002.

  • Luard, Elisabeth. Sacred Food: Cooking for Spiritual Nourishment. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2004 [2001].

  • "The Sensual and the Spiritual in the World of Food," Ch. 2 of Bringéus, Nils-Arvid. Man, Food and Milieu: A Swedish Approach to Food Ethnology. Tuckwell, 2001.

  • Simoons, Frederick J. Eat not this flesh: food avoidances from prehistory to the present, 2nd Ed. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1994.

  • World Religions

films / videos
video:
Food for Body and Spirit
(29 min., 1984, VC 714)
(China)
(Food of Chins)
[food holds Chinese culture together]
viewing guide
~
video:
The Global Banquet: The Politics of Food
(50 min., 2001, VC 4770)
(56 min.?)

viewing guide
~

video:
The Meaning of Food: "Food & Life" (ca. 60 min., CC, 2007, DVD 1700)
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Episode 1: "Food & Life"
examines the symbolic importance of food and eating

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video:
The Meaning of Food: "Food & Family" (streaming video)
(ca. 60 min., CC, 2007, DVD 1700)
viewing guide

Episode 3: "Food & Family"
looks at the complex way food defines families

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video--International Focus:
Our Daily Bread
(92 min., CC, but almost without dialogue, 2005, DVD 1988)
Our Daily Bread Viewing Guide
Our Daily Bread -- Wikipedia
viewing guide

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video:
The Pig Commandments
(72 min., 2005, DVD 1690)
(China)
(Malaysia)
(70 min?)
[food tears Chinese culture apart in Malaysia]
viewing guide
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video--International Focus:
We Feed the World
(96 min., CC, 2007, DVD 1330)
We Feed the World Viewing Guide
viewing guide
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