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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.
"Palermo, Sicily, Italy
has the best gelato in the world"
-- Willie Henderson

Anthropology of Food

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Desert People, boy eating "grub worm"
Eating a"grub worm"
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A Fistful of Rice.
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Claire Kathleen Roufs eating first food at 5 months.
Claire Kathleen Roufs
First solid food, rice (isn't as handy as the original)
5 months old
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Eating rat.
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Week 08 Day 15

Tuesday 10 March 2009

video: The Pig Commandments
(72 min., 2005, DVD 1690)
(China) (Malaysia)
(beginning)
(70 min?)

 

 

Announcements

 

In the news...

tba

Presentations

Topic

"My favorite AnthFood feature / subject / item is. . . ."
(Do not choose the Moroccan Diffa)

or

"My favorite cuisine is. . . ."

  • Length: 8-10 minute presentation

  • Explain what the subject / cuisine is and its important relevant features

  • Explain why it is your favorite

  • Discuss what anthropologists have had to say about the subject / item / cuisine

  • Follow the suggestions for organization and presentation from the Case Studies Materials or the other resource materials
see also
In-class Presentation
Oral Presentations -- General Information
Suggested Presentation Stragegies
WebPages from "Food" sections
of the Countries, Cultures, Regions, Areas, and Territories
available on this WebSite
Other Resources
More Information on Topic
Presentations Schedule

 

Feature of the Day

肉

肉

"It was hardly surprising that, for the Chinese, the words 'meat' and 'pork' became, and remain, synonymous."

-- concluding sentence to Chapter 2 "Changing the Face of the Earth," Reay Tannahill, Food in History (NY: Three Rivers Press, 1988)

Book image.

 

Book image.

Food Revolution #2: The Meaning of Eating
-- the discovery that food is more than sustenance

 

For a comprehensive review of pork avoidance and its historical and social importance see Eat Not This Flesh: Food Avoidances form Prehistory to the Present, 2nd Ed. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press 1994).

For a comprehensive review of pork avoidance and its historical and social importance see
Frederick J. Simoons, Eat Not This Flesh: Food Avoidances form Prehistory to the Present, 2nd Ed.
(Madison: University of Wisconsin Press 1994)

Eating Is a Cultural Affair – Food, Religion, and Culture…

A comparative look…

video:
 The Pig Commandments
(72 min., 2005, DVD 1690)
(beginning)
(70 min?)
(China)
(Malaysia)

Pig Commandment pig.
The Pig Commandments

Old Business
return to scheduled features of the day

Assignment

Read:
 The Cultural Feast, Ch. 8, "World View, Religion, and Health Beliefs: Ideological Basis of Food Practices"

Notes

  • Tuesday 10 March 2009: Introduced The Pig Commandments (72 min., 2005, DVD 1690), and watched the first 50 minutes (because of a technical problem, ended after the end of Part V)
 
 
Week 08 Day 16

Thursday 12 March 2009

video: The Pig Commandments
(72 min., 2005, DVD 1690)
(China) (Malaysia) (cont.)

(70 min?)

 

 

Announcements

In the news...

A chocolate tax to fight obesity?

(see AFforum Topic 6)

AFforumTopic 6

 

Chocolate "Sin" Tax?

Jesus chocolate.

"'Chocolate tax' to tackle obesity"
reads the BBCNews headline of 12 March 2009
(00:32 GMT)

"A Scottish GP has called for chocolate to be taxed in the same way as alcohol and cigarettes to tackle increasing levels of obesity and type 2 diabetes."

Almost within minutes a spokesperson for
the Food and Drink Federation (FDF)
published a defense:
"FDF defends industry against fat tax for chocolate" as reported in an article by Sarah Hills, 12 March 2009
(no time stamp).

Read the BBC article on a proposal for a chocolate tax at
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/glasgow_and_west/7938282.stm>

and have a look at Sara Hill's article on the Food and Drink Federation (FDF) response
<http://www.foodnavigator.com/Product-Categories/Chocolate-and-confectionery-ingredients/FDF-defends-industry-against-fat-tax-for-chocolate>

The course page on chocolate is at

<http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/anthfood/afchocolate.html#title>

Questions:


1. Are you in favor of a tax on food items like chocolate?

2. Why? Or why not?

We'll be looking at and eating chocolate in class on the 21st of April

 

Be sure to set your "Folder Selector"
in the main window
to the current topic
[use the “Reload/Main button" to get to the main window]

Set Folder Selector to Topic 6

REM: Set PCfolder to curent topic.

REM: If you have any questions, you can post them on the AFforum
or bring them up in class

Feature of the Day

肉

肉

"It was hardly surprising that, for the Chinese, the words 'meat' and 'pork' became, and remain, synonymous."

-- concluding sentence to Chapter 2 "Changing the Face of the Earth," Reay Tannahill, Food in History (NY: Three Rivers Press, 1988)

Book image.

 

Book image.

Food Revolution #2: The Meaning of Eating
-- the discovery that food is more than sustenance

 

For a comprehensive review of pork avoidance and its historical and social importance see Eat Not This Flesh: Food Avoidances form Prehistory to the Present, 2nd Ed. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press 1994).

For a comprehensive review of pork avoidance and its historical and social importance see
Frederick J. Simoons, Eat Not This Flesh: Food Avoidances form Prehistory to the Present, 2nd Ed.
(Madison: University of Wisconsin Press 1994)

Eating Is a Cultural Affair – Food, Religion, and Culture…

A comparative look…

video:
 The Pig Commandments
(72 min., 2005, DVD 1690)
(cont.)
(70 min?)
(China)
(Malaysia)

Shaikh Hussain Ye of Malaysia.
Shaikh Hussain Ye
Malaysia

 

 

Ketchup bottle.

 

catch up / review / preview

Old Business

Old Business
return to scheduled features of the day

Assignment

Read:
 Sweetness and Power, Ch. 2: "Production"

Notes

  • Tuesday 24 February 2009: Viewed segments 9-12 of We Feed the World viewed (96 min., CC, 2007, DVD 1330), briefly reviewed exam format, talked about how/why/where of domestication, slides Dietary Revolutions: The Neolithic "Agricultural" Revolution, #51 through maize #104.
  • Tuesday 10 March 2009: Introduced The Pig Commandments (72 min., 2005, DVD 1690), and watched the first 50 minutes.
  • Thursday 12 March 2009: Finished The Pig Commandments (72 min., 2005, DVD 1690), the impact of food production on health (slides) to ca., #230,Felipe Fernández-Armesto, "Why did they bother?"
 
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