AMS 55 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Food Science
23 Jan 2018
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Foodways: what, how, why, and under what circumstances we eat not universal, natural, or inevitable. Interlinked institutions and processes that transform sunlight, water, and soil into meaning- laden foods. Food system and foodways: need a change in both, not one or the other, in order to have a change in the future of food. Understanding food practices: symbolic and material, ex: comfort foods. Why does food studies matter: problems in american dietary health cannot be solved from either a scientific or a cultural perspective alone. Integration of scientific and social/cultural insights is essential to new product development and food innovation: understanding eating habits provides insights into american culture (values and beliefs) and social order (relationships b/w people, which involve power). Insights into why we do what we do help us to arrive at our own choices more consciously (and defend our choices more coherently).
