Food history

This article is about the academic discipline. For a general history, see History of food.

Food history is an interdisciplinary field that examines the history and the cultural, economic, environmental, and sociological impacts of food and human nutrition. It includes famines and malnutrition. It is distinct from the more traditional field of culinary history, which focuses on the origin and recreation of specific recipes.

Anthropologists and historians

Since the 19th century, anthropologists have pioneered the study of the role of food in traditional societies through direct observation and by reconstructing behavior from artifacts recovered from historical sites. The topic remains a central part of current anthropology and archaeology research as typified by K.C. Chang at Harvard University.[1][2] The systematic study of food culture by professional historians is a more recent development, inspired in large part by the French Annales school typified by Fernand Braudel.[3] However, there have always been numerous popular historical accounts, as typified by Waverley Root.[4] The first journal in the field, Petits Propos Culinaires, was launched in 1979 and the first conference on the subject was the 1981 Oxford Food Symposium.[5]

Politics of food

Historians and political scientists have explored many national and international political aspects of food history.[6][7] For example, they have looked at food's role as a colonial tool in Africa and Asia;[8] "McDonaldization";[9] the food dimensions of Mexican, Chinese and Italian diasporas;[10] class dimension in terms of the meals served in upper, middle, and working class cafés; the Green Revolution that averted starvation in the Third World;[11] and intense debates over Genetically modified food, and efforts to stop their importation.[12]

See also

References

  1. ^ R. Kenji Tierney, and Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney, "Anthropology of food" in The Oxford Handbook of Food History ed. by Jeffrey M. Pilcher, (Oxford University Press, 2012) pp.117–134.
  2. ^ Christine A. Hastorf, The social archaeology of food: Thinking about eating from prehistory to the present (Cambridge University Press, 2017) online.
  3. ^ Maurice Aymard, " Toward the history of nutrition: some methodological remarks" in Robert Forster, and Orest Ranum, eds. Food and Drink in History: Selections from the Annales, économies, sociétiés, civilizations (Johns Hopkins UP, 1979) pp.1–16.
  4. ^ Jeffrey M. Pilcher. "Introduction" in The Oxford Handbook of Food History pp. xvii to xxviii; and Sydney Watts, "Food and the Annales School" pp. 3–22; online
  5. ^ Raymond Sokolov, "Many Hands Stirring Many Pots", a review of The Cambridge World History of Food, Natural History 109:11:86-87 (November 2000)
  6. ^ Enrique C. Ochoa, "Political Histories of Food" in The Oxford Handbook of food history (2012) pp.23–40; https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199729937.013.0002
  7. ^ Jeffrey Pilcher, Food in World History (2005) pp.1–7.
  8. ^ Verena Raschke, and Bobby Cheema, "Colonisation, the New World Order, and the eradication of traditional food habits in East Africa: historical perspective on the nutrition transition." Public health nutrition 11.7 (2008): 662–674.
  9. ^ George Ritzer, "An introduction to McDonaldization." McDonaldization: The Reader (2002): 4–25.
  10. ^ Ken Albala, Three World Cuisines: Italian, Mexican, Chinese (Bloomsbury, 2012).
  11. ^ Edward D. Melillo, "The first green revolution: debt peonage and the making of the nitrogen fertilizer trade, 1840–1930." American Historical Review 117#4 (2012): 1028–1060. online
  12. ^ Tony E. Wohlers, "The role of risk perception and political culture: a comparative study of regulating genetically modified food." Risk and cognition (Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2015) pp.21–59.

Further reading

  • Albala., Ken, ed. Routledge international handbook of food studies (2023)
  • Albala., Ken, ed. Food Cultures of the World Encyclopedia ( 4 volumes; Greenwood, 2011)
  • Bellemare, Marc F. "Rising food prices, food price volatility, and political unrest." (MPRA Paper No. 31888, 2011); covers 1990 to 2011, worldwide. online
  • Block, Stephen. "Food History". The Kitchen Project.
  • Bush, Ray. "Food Riots: Poverty, Power, and Protest," Journal of Agrarian Change (2010), 10(1): 119-129.
  • Collingham, Lizzie. Taste of War: World War II and the Battle for Food (2013)
  • Cumo, Christopher, ed. Foods That Changed History: How Foods Shaped Civilization from the Ancient World to the Present (Facts on File, 2015) online
  • Flandrin, Jean-Louis, et al. eds. Food: A Culinary History from Antiquity to the Present (1999) based on French Annales approach. online
  • Gremillion, Kristen J. Ancestral Appetites: Food in Prehistory (Cambridge UP, 2011) 188 pages; explores the processes of dietary adaptation in prehistory that contributed to the diversity of global foodways.
  • Grew, Raymond. Food in Global History, Westview Press, 2000
  • Heiser Charles B. Seed to civilisation. The story of food (Harvard UP, 1990)
  • Johnson, Sylvia A. Tomatoes, Potatoes, Corn, and Beans: How the Foods of the Americas Changed Eating around the World (Atheneum Books, 1997). online
  • Kiple, Kenneth F. and Kriemhild Coneè Ornelas, eds. The Cambridge World History of Food, (2 vol, 2000).
  • Katz, Solomon ed. The Encyclopedia of Food and Culture (Scribner, 2003)
  • Lacey, Richard. Hard to swallow: a brief history of food (1994) online free
  • Le, Stephen (2018). 100 Million Years of Food: What Our Ancestors Ate and Why It Matters Today. Picador. ISBN 978-1250117885.
  • Linford, Jenny. The Seven Culinary Wonders of the World: A History of Honey, Salt, Chile, Pork, Rice, Cacao, and Tomato (Smithsonian Institution, 2018)
  • Mizelle, Brett. Pig (Reaktion Books, 2012) relation to humans, emphasis on art and literature. online
  • Mintz, Sidney. Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom: Excursions into Eating, Power, and the Past, (1997).
  • Nestle, Marion. Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health (2nd ed 2007).
  • Ó Gráda, Cormac Famine: A Short History (Princeton University Press, (2009) online book review.
  • Parasecoli, Fabio & Peter Scholliers, eds. A Cultural History of Food, 6 volumes (Berg Publishers, 2012)
  • Pilcher, Jeffrey M. ed. The Oxford Handbook of Food History (2017). Online review Archived 2018-05-05 at the Wayback Machine
  • Pilcher, Jeffrey M. (2023). Food in World History (3rd ed.). Routledge. ISBN 978-1032351490.
  • Ritchie, Carson I.A. Food in civilization: how history has been affected by human tastes (1981) online free
  • Sen, Amartya. Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation (Oxford UP, 1983)
  • Snodgrass, Mary Ellen, ed. World Food: An Encyclopedia of History, Culture and Social Influence from Hunter Gatherers to the Age of Globalization (Routledge, 2012)
  • Thompson, Paul B. , and David M. Kaplan, eds. Encyclopedia of Food and Agricultural Ethics (2014)
  • Vernon, James. Hunger: A Modern History (Harvard UP, 2007)

Historiography

  • Asfora, Wanessa, and Gregorio Saldarriaga. "Recent Trends in Food History Research in Ibero-America: 2014-2016." Food and History 13.1-3 (2015): 285-290. online
  • Aymard, Maurice. "Toward the History of Nutrition: Some Methodological Rremarks" in Robert Forster, and Orest Ranum, eds. Food and Drink in History: Selections from the Annales, économies, sociétiés, civilizations (Johns Hopkins UP, 1979) pp.1–16.
  • Claflin, Kyri and Peter Scholliers, eds. Writing Food History, a Global Perspective (Berg, 2012)
  • Counihan, Carole M. The Anthropology of Food and Body: Gender, Meaning, and Power (Routledge, 1999).
  • De La Peña, Carolyn, and Benjamin N. Lawrance. "Introduction: Traversing the local/global and food/culture divides." Food and Foodways 19.1-2 (2011): 1–10.
  • Freedman, Paul, et al. eds. Food in Time and Place: The American Historical Association Companion to Food History (2014) 17 scholarly reviews of worldwide historiography.
  • Iacovetta, Franca, Valerie J. Korinek, and Marlene Epp. Edible histories, cultural politics: Towards a Canadian food history (University of Toronto Press, 2012).
  • Otter, Chris. "The British Nutrition Transition and its Histories", History Compass 10/11 (2012): pp. 812–825, [DOI]: 10.1111/hic3.12001
  • Peters Kernan, Sarah. "Recent Trends in Food History Research in the United States: 2017-19." Food & History (Jan 2021), Vol. 18 Issue 1/2, pp 233–240.
  • Pilcher, Jeffrey M. "The embodied imagination in recent writings on food history." American Historical Review 121#3 (2016): 861–887.
  • Pilcher, Jeffrey M., ed. Food History: Critical and Primary Sources (2015) 4 vol; reprints 76 primary and secondary sources.
  • Scholliers, Peter. " Twenty-five Years of Studying un Phénomène Social Total: Food History Writing on Europe in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries," Food, Culture & Society: An International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research (2007) 10#3 pp 449–471 https://doi.org/10.2752/155280107X239881
  • Taylor, Lynne. "Food Riots Revisited" Journal of Social History (1996) 30#2 pp. 483–496 online
  • Woolgar, Christopher M. "Food and the Middle Ages." Journal of Medieval History 36.1 (2010): 1–19.

Journals

  • Petits Propos Culinaires, first journal in the field
  • Food and Foodways: Explorations in the History and Culture of Human Nourishment
  • Food, Culture and Society: An International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research
  • Food & History: multilingual scientific journal about the history and culture of food published by the (IEHCA)
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