FOOD AND CULTURE
Food Habit Change, Acculturation, Urbanization

Abu-Jaber D. 2005. The Language of Baklava: A Memoir. Anchor Books. [acculturation; North America; United States; Jordanian American]An ad in a Greenlandic supermarket captures the local mood after Coca-Cola arrived to the arctic region in February 1998 (© Rudy Brueggemann)Arendt B. 2010. Caribou to Cod: Moravian Missionary Influence on Inuit Subsistence Strategies. Historical Archaeology 44(3):81-101. [history; diet; change; North America; Canada; Labrador]

Armelagos GJ. 2010. The Omnivore's Dilemma the Evolution of the Brain and the Determinants of Food Choice. Journal of Anthropological Research 66(2):161-186. [human evolution; dietary change; obesity]

Atkins PJ, Kummel P, Oddy DJ, eds. 2007. Food and the City in Europe since 1800. Ashgate. [collected essays; history; food system; urbanization; Europe]

Benavides-Vaello S. 2005. Cultural Influences on the Dietary Practices of Mexican Americans: A Review of the Literature. Hispanic Health Care International 3(1):27-35. [diet; acculturation; North America; Mexican Americans]

Cwiertka K. 2006. Modern Japanese Cuisine: Food, Power and National Identity. Reaktion. [history; urbanization; economic and social change; military rations; East Asia; Japan]

Dawdy SL. 2010. "A Wild Taste": Food and Colonialism in Eighteenth-Century Louisiana. Ethnohistory 57(3):389-414. [history; historic archaeology; eating habits; acculturation; North America; New France; Native Americans ]

Dickerson T, Fernandez D, Samen A, et al. 2008. From Butter Tea to Pepsi: A Rapid Appraisal of Food Preferences, Procurement Sources & Dietary Diversity in a Contemporary Tibetan Township. Ecology of Food and Nutrition 47:229. [modernization; delocalization; nutrition transition; East Asia; Tibet]

Eriksson G, Linderholm A, Fornander E, et al. 2008. Same Island, Different Diet: Cultural Evolution of Food Practice on Oland, Sweden, from the Mesolithic to the Roman Period. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 27(4):520-543. [archaeology; mesolithic; neolithic; dietary change; Europe; Baltic; Sweden; Oland]

Errington F, Gewertz D. 2008. Pacific Island Gastrologies: Following the Flaps. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 14(3):590-608. [globalization; trade; foodstuffs; sheep bellies; animal fat; consumption patterns; Oceania]

Franzen L, Smith C. 2009. Acculturation and Environmental Change Impacts Dietary Habits among Adult Hmong. Appetite 52(1):173-183. [acculturation; food habits; North America; United States; Minnesota]

Fuller DQ. 2005. Ceramics, Seeds and Culinary Change in Prehistoric India. Antiquity 79(306):761-777. [prehistory; change; agriculture; neolithic; paleobotany; pottery; South Asia; Southern India]

Garcia-Closas R. 2006. Changes in Food Supply in Mediterranean Countries from 1961 to 2001. Public Health Nutrition 9(1):53-60(58). [ dietary change; Mediterranean diet; food supply; nutrition; Europe; North Africa; Spain; Italy; France; Greece; Algeria; Morocco; Tunisia; Turkey]

Gilbert PA, Khokhar S. 2008. Changing Dietary Habits of Ethnic Groups in Europe and Implications for Health. Nutrition Reviews 66(4). [acculturation; dietary change; Europe; immigrants]

Hamlett J, Bailey AR, Alexander A, et al. 2008. Ethnicity and Consumption South Asian Food Shopping Patterns in Britain, 1947-75. Journal of Consumer Culture 8(1):91-116. [acculturation; ethnic identity; shopping; Europe; United Kingdom; South Asian immigrants]

Himmelgreen D. 2007. "I Don't Make the Soups Anymore": Pre- to Post-Migration Dietary and Lifestyle Changes among Latinos Living in West-Central Florida. Ecology of Food and Nutrition 46:427-444. [dietary change; acculturation; North America]

Himmelgreen D, Romero Daza N, Vega M, et al. 2006. The Tourist Season Goes Down but Not the Prices. Tourism and Food Insecurity in Rural Costa Rica. Ecology of Food and Nutrition 45(4):295-321(227). [dietary acculturation; poverty; health; Central America]

Himmelgreen DA, Bretnall A, Perez-Escamilla R, et al. 2005. Birthplace, Length of Time in the U.S., and Language Are Associated with Diet among Inner-City Puerto Rican Women. Ecology of Food and Nutrition 44(2):105-122. [dietary acculturation; health; North America; United States; Latinos]

Issenberg S. 2007. The Sushi Economy. Gotham. [food use; fish; luxury cuisine; globalization; Japan]

Jiang HW, Umezaki M, Ohtsuka R. 2006. Inter-Household Variation in Adoption of Cash Cropping and Its Effects on Labor and Dietary Patterns: A Study in a Li Hamlet in Hainan Island, China. Anthropological Science 114(2):165-173. [social change; economy; East Asia]

Kiple KF. 2007. A Moveable Feast: Ten Millennia of Food Globalization. Cambridge University Press. [history; globalization]

Leatherman TL, Goodman A. 2005. Coca-Colonization of Diets in the Yucatan. Social Science & Medicine 61(4):833-846. [dietary change; commodization; tourism; nutrition; Mexico; Yucatan; Maya]

Liechty M. 2005. Carnal Economies: The Commodification of Food and Sex in Kathmandu. Cultural Anthropology 20(1):1-38. [food and culture; commensality; gender relations; modernization; South Asia; Nepal]

Matsuda-Inoguchi N. 2006. Limited Acceptance of Globalization in Food Habits among Middle-Aged Women in Osaka, Japan. International Journal of Food Sciences and Nutrition 57(7-8):419-433. [diet; change; age; gender; East Asia; Japan]

Nicolaou M, vanDam RM, Stronks K. 2006. Acculturation and Education Level in Relation to Quality of the Diet: A Study of Surinamese South Asian and Afro-Caribbean Residents of the Netherlands. Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics 19(5):383-393. [culture change; immigrants; Europe]

O'Donnel MA. 2010. The Cultural Politics of Eating in Shenzhen. Gastronomica 10(2):31-39. [food system; change; political economy; East Asia; China]

Parkins W, Craig G. 2006. Slow Living. Berg. [slow food movement; globalization]

Ritzer G. 2008. The Mcdonaldization of Society 5. 5th edition. Pine Forge Press. [sociology;sociological theory; rationalization; globalization; industrial food; textbook]

Steckel RH. 2005. Health and Nutrition in the Pre-Industrial Era: Insights from a Millennium of Average Heights in Northern Europe. Living Standards in the Past 1:227-255. [skeletal remains; nutrition; stature; health; climate; living standards; social inequality; urbanization; Europe; Middle Ages]

Steel C. 2008. Hungry City: How Food Shapes Our Lives. Chatto & Windus. [history; urbanization]

Swislocki M. 2009. Culinary Nostalgia: Regional Food Culture and the Urban Experience in Shanghai. Stanford University Press. [political economy; change; Westernization; East Asia; China]

Wilk R. 2006. Home Cooking in the Global Village: Caribbean Food from Buccaners to Ecotourists. Berg. [history; globalization; Central America; Belize]

Wilson TM. 2006. Introduction: Food, Drink and Identity in Europe: Consumption and the Construction of Local, National and Cosmopolitan Culture. Yearbook of European Studies 22:11-29. [social identity; cultural change]

Wintle M. 2006. Diet and Modernization in the Netherlands During the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries. Yearbook of European Studies 22:63-84. [dietary change; Europe]

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Updated 11/2011