When did food become such a big deal to academics, politicians and pop culture alike? From paleo evangelicals to taxes on sugar, everyone’s got an opinion about what’s on your fork.
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Hippocrates said circa 400BC that “food should be our medicine and medicine should be our food”. He would probably turn in his grave if he saw the amount of highly processed, sugary food and drinks marketed…
Within the US restaurant industry, blacks are generally considered comparatively poor tippers. One recent survey of roughly 1,000 restaurant servers from across the nation found that 34% thought blacks…
Food labelling is a contentious topic that has been going through the mincer for decades. Many of the issues have been designed to aid the consumer, such as the traffic light system, and clearer displays…
In much of the English-speaking world Christmas dinner involves the consumption of turkey – but that was not always the case. The origins of this ritual can be traced back to the generous act of one Ebenezer…
Traditional Christmas and winter food and drinks such as mulled wine, eggnog, ginger bread and fruitcakes often call for more than a dash of what Jamie Oliver calls “festive spices” – cloves, cinnamon…
In a current TV advertisement for supermarket chain Aldi, a young traveller returns to his northern hemisphere village and shares his newfound knowledge of the Aussie Christmas. The villagers begrudgingly…
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Monash Intercultural Lab and National Convenor of the Asian Australian Studies Research Network, Monash University
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Professor of Marketing, University of Birmingham
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Director of Undergraduate Studies, School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University
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Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, University of South Australia
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Senior Research Associate, The University of Melbourne
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PhD candidate, Anthropology, La Trobe University
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Associate Professor of Sociology, Wayne State University
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Professor of Food and Beverage Management, Cornell University
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Professor of Public History, University of Technology Sydney
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Researcher in Conservation Decision Science and Land Use, University of Oxford
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Associate professor, University of Newcastle
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Professor of History, University of the Pacific
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Lecturer in History, University of Sydney
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Author, The Oldest Foods on Earth, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor, History, University of Newcastle
