Foodways


Dethroning the Deceitful Pork Chop: Rethinking African American Foodways from Slavery to Obama
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
Grain and Fire: A History of Baking in the American South
Our Fermented Lives: A History of How Fermented Foods Have Shaped Cultures & Communities
Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement (Justice, Power, and Politics)
Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal: A Food Science Nutrition History Book
The Food We Eat, the Stories We Tell: Contemporary Appalachian Tables (New Approaches to Appalachian Studies)
Edible Memory: The Lure of Heirloom Tomatoes and Other Forgotten Foods
The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South
American Appetites: A Documentary Reader (Food and Foodways)
Barbecue Crossroads: Notes and Recipes from a Southern Odyssey
Vibration Cooking or the Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl
Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat
What to Drink with What You Eat
An Edible History of Humanity
Robin Caldwell
Food is heritage. Food is economy. Food is culture. It makes no sense for a major city in the U.S. not to have someone documenting a city's foodways story, especially cities with major research universities. It ain't bougie or boring, it's protecting the truth. ...more
Robin Caldwell

Foodways like any other aspect of culture, are never static. Even without the influence of other cultures, we would be eating and cooking differently from the generations that came before us.
Richard R. Wilk, Home Cooking in the Global Village: Caribbean Food from Buccaneers to Ecotourists

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