ABSTRACT
The value of studying food as a path to understanding culture and history has by now been well established. The pioneering work of anthropologist Audrey Richards (1932, 1939) in the early part of this century launched the formal acknowledgment of foodways as an effective prism through which to illuminate human life. Since then, a growing number of studies in the social sciences and humanities have contributed depth and breadth to the study of food and culture. A decade of publishing the journal Food andFoodways has firmly established the myriad interdisciplinary contributions made by the study of human alimentation.
