SAFN Book Reviews
SAFN provides reviews of anthropologically-informed books on the topics of food and nutrition on a regular basis. If there is a book you would like to have reviewed, please send an email to Miriam Chaiken. If you would like to volunteer to review a book, you can also contact Miriam Chaiken.
The Farmers’ Market Book: Growing Food, Cultivating Community
by Jennifer Meta Robinson and J. A. Hartenfeld
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2007 Quarry Books
(271 pages)
Reviewed by Rachel Black
University of Gastronomic Sciences, Italy
Fat: The Anthropology of an Obsession
Edited by Don Kulick and Anne Meneley
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Penguin Group. 2005
(256 pages)
Reviewed by Ann Folino White, Ph.D.
Northwestern University
The Restaurants Book: Ethnographies of Where We Eat
by David Beriss and David Sutton
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eds. Oxford: Berg. 2007
(256 pages)
Reviewed by Leslie Carlin
Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Division of Primary Care and Public Health, University of Brighton
Broccoli & Desire: Global Connections and Maya Struggles in Postwar Guatemala
by Edward. F. Fischer and Peter Benson
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2006 Stanford University Press
(212 pages)
Reviewed by Miriam S. Chaiken
Indiana University of Pennsylvania-
Food is Culture
by Massimo Montanari and Albert Sonnenfeld
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trans. 2006 Columbia University Press
(168 pages)
Reviewed by Lidia Marte
The University of Texas at Austin -
Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health
by Marion Nestle
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2003 Berkeley: University of California Press
(457 pages)
Reviewed by Joylin Namie
Utah Valley State College