FORUM: UNDERSTANDINGS OF FOOD AS CULTURE

摘要

I came to the study of food food via material culture studies. Influenced by Sidney Mintz's scholarship on sugar, I began thinking about the gendering of candy in America. My work was shaped by anthropologists who, dating back to the nineteenth century, have been at the forefront of food studies. I read articles by Roland Barthes and Claude Levi-Strauss who advanced semiotic frameworks and argued that food is a system of communication, a language with rules not unlike grammar.