Status Updates From Food and Culture: A Reader

The heavy hand of biogeography lies heavy on many chapters; from the culinary divide of a nations that purportedly claims to be an indivisible one to religious divide that is seemingly tied to the economics of pig farming.

#QOTD "The growing attention to the male body—it has sometime been argued—is, at least partially, a result of the mainstreaming and the normalization of gay culture."

#FoodForThought "Islam..to this..day has a geographical limit which coincides with..ecological zones of transition between forested regions well suited for pig husbandry and regions where..pig husbandry [is] a risky and expensive practice."

#WordUp "Parasecoli..finds that men’s fitness magazines alienate men from cooking except in pursuit of sex, reduce eating to a form of body-building, and propose a nearly unattainable ideal of fitness."