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 McDonaldization of Society 5
By George Ritzer
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2008, Los Angeles, CA: Pine Forge Press
(320 pages)
Reviewed by Melissa L. Caldwell
University of California, Santa Cruz
The School Food Revolution: Public Food and the Challenge of Sustainable Development
By Kevin Morgan and Roberta Sonnino
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2008, Earthscan Publications, Ltd.
(240 pages)
Reviewed by Sarah E. Cunningham
Department of Anthropology, Oregon State University
Glazed America - A History of the Doughnut
written by Paul R. Mullins
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2008, University of Florida Press
(224 pages)
Reviewed by Steven A. Hovan
Dept. of Geoscience, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
The World of Soy
edited by Christine M. DuBois, Chee-Beng Tan, Sidney Mintz
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2008, University of Illinois Press
(352 pages)
Reviewed by Andrea Wiley
Professor of Anthropology, Indiana University, Bloomington
The Human Cost of Food: Farmworkers' Lives, Labor, and Advocacy
edited by Charles D. Thompson, Jr., and Melinda F. Wiggins
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2002, Austin: University of Texas Press
(357 pages)
Reviewed by Lois Stanford
Anthropology, New Mexico State University
Food for Thought:
Essays on Eating and CultureEdited by Lawrence C. Rubin
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Foreword by John Shelton Lawrence
(307 pages)
Reviewed by Susan D. Blum
Department of Anthropology
The University of Notre Dame
McFarland Pub, Jefferson, NC, and London
What to Eat
by Marion Nestle
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(271 pages)
Reviewed by Nafisa Fera, Education Officer
Royal Anthropological Institute, London 2007 North Point Press
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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2005 Penguin Group
(256 pages)
Reviewed by Ann Folino White, Ph.D.
Michigan State 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