Critical Studies in Food and Culture

Critical Studies in Food and Culture Blog posts information of interest to researchers investigating food and cultural studies, as well as the critical analysis of eating practices and broader cultures of consumption.

Sunday, October 01, 2006

CSFC: Ken Abala

A Hill of Beans: A History of the World's Most Ubiquitous Peasant Food

Ken Albala,
Professor of History at the University of the Pacific

October 27
12:10- 1:30 pm
at 2203 Social Sciences and Humanities Bldg.
University of California, Davis


Description: Ken Abala offers a series of mini-biographies of various legume species and what they reveal about the people who will or will not eat them.
For more info contact: Stacy Jameson smjameson AT ucdavis.edu

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Critical Studies in Food and Culture (CSFC) is a research cluster sponsored by the Davis Humanities Institute and the American Studies Department at the University of California, Davis. It aims to support and share the work of Faculty and Graduate Student researchers investigating the intersections of food and cultural studies, as well as the critical analysis of eating practices and the broader cultures of consumption.