In the news...

Peanut Prodsuct Recall -- see AFforum Topic 2 below

What Can We Learn from the Peanut Recall?

CBSNews 13 February 200

"Peanut recall: Widely Known, poorly understood," reads the DuluthNewsTribune page-wide feature on Monday 16 February 2009.
(The rest of the nation heard the news of the Harvard study three days earlier, on Friday the 13^thsup>)

The AP article notes that so far 1,900 peanut-based products have been recalled, noting that "Federal health officials are tracking a salmonella outbreak that has caused at least 636 illnesses in 44 states and has been linked to 9 deaths."
[By comparison 50 people were killed in the New York Continental plane crash on 14 February.]

Read the article on the Harvard study. It is currently available on-line at the DuluthNewsTribune website

<http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/event/article/id/112444/>

it's also available on other sites:

"Survey Shows Confusion Over Peanut Recall"
-- CBSnews (13 February 2009)
<http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/02/13/health/main4800423.shtml>

"Harvard poll: Most know of peanut recalls, but many wrong on products and doubt safeguards"
-- newsday.com (13 February 2009)
<http://www.newsday.com/news/health/sns-ap-med-salmonella-survey,0,6798988.story>

"Survey: Peanut recall known but misunderstood"
-- Yahoo (13 February 2009)
<http://health.yahoo.com/news/ap/med_salmonella_survey.html>

"Survey: Peanut recall known but misunderstood"
-- Washington Post (13 February 2009)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/13/AR2009021301142_pf.html>

Questions:

1. Apart from the obvious main focus of the article, what do you think are the three most important things about the article that relate to the Anthropology of Food?
   
   
2. Why?

An Anth Food Paradigm:
America's First Cuisines

Aztec Feast

We Feed the World

Announcements

• Your midterm exam question is due to the AFforum by Tuesday, 22 February 2010
  (See details below)

• The Food and Bio-physical Case Study is due by Friday, 26 February 2010

National Eating Awareness Disorders Week -- UMD Events
National_Eating_Disorders_Association (NEDA)
23-27 February 2009
28 February - 6 March 2010

Make up a Good Question for the Midterm Exam

Have a look at the the Midterm Exam materials at
<www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/anthfood/afexams_midterm.html#title>

including the sample exam question format

including the optional take-home question that you can bring in with you

Sample Exam Questions on-line

optional take-home question

s2009 midterm .doc format
s2009 midterm .rtf format

Then review the materials so far covered this semester

in your text
in your class notes
on the video viewing guides

Recommendations on how to study and take exams:

How to write an essay exam

Purdue University Online Writing Lab

test taking strategies
learning styles
study strategies
study strategies
listening skills
notetaking
special facilities / arrangements
extra help

Assignment:

Make up at least one good question for the Midterm Exam and post it on the the AFforum, and . . .

Briefly describe why you think your question is a good one

Feature of the Day

Old Business

• Tuesday 17 February 2009: Handed out "Archaeological Sequence from Tehuacán, Mexico", fnished Handout: "Archaeological Sequence from Tehuacán, Mexico", and review "Dietary Revolutions" up to symbiosis (slides) (#49)

Assignment

Notes

• Thursday 19 February 2009: "Dietary Revolutions" from "Why/When/Where Domestication" (slides) (ca., #49) postponed due to technical difficulties; Segments 1-8 of We Feed the World viewed (96 min., CC, 2007, DVD 1330), through end of Segment 8 "Starvation Amidst Plenty: Brazil."