Morning (© Birute Zygmantaite)

FOOD AND CULTURE

Preference and Taste ( food selection and choice)
 

Abrams HL (1987) The Preference for Animal Protein and Fat. in Food and Evolution. M Harris, E Ross (editors). 207-223. Temple University Press. [preference; meat; fat].

Armelagos GJ (1987) Biocultural Aspects of Food Choice. in M Harris; E Ross (eds) Food and Evolution. Temple University Press [food choice; biocultural involvements].

Axelson ML; Brinberg D (1989) A Social-Psychological Perspective on Food-Related Behavior [choice; classification; psychology; methods].

Baer R (1998) Cooking -- and Coping -- among the Cacti: Diet, Nutrition and Available Income in Northwestern Mexico. Gordon and Breach [diet; food choice; economic factors; Middle America; Mexico; Senora].

Barker LM (1982) The Physiobiology of Human Food Selection [selection; physiology].

Beauchamp G (1981) Ontogenesis of Taste Preference. in D Walcher; N Kretchmer (eds) Food, Nutrition, and Evolution: Food as an Environmental Factor in the Genesis of Human Variability, pp. 49-58 [preference; development of taste].

Bernstein I (1978) Learned Taste Aversions in Children Receiving Chemotheraphy. Science. 200:1302-1303 [preference; aversion; learning].

Bindon JR (1988) Taro or Rice, Plantation or Market; Dietary Choice in American Samoa. Food and Foodways. 3:59-78 [food choice; dietary change; Oceania; Samoa].

Birch LL (1992) Children's Preference for High Fat Foods. Nutrition Reviews. 50:249-255 [child nutrition; food selection].

Borre K (1991) Seal Blood, Inuit Blood, and Diet: A Biocultural Model of Physiology and Cultural Identity. Medical Anthropology Quarterly. 5:48-62 [food selection; subsistence hunters; native North America].

Ceyhan O (1999) Bitter Taste Thresholds in a Turkish Society. Ecology of Food and Nutrition. 38:137- [taste; Europe; Turkey].

Drewnowski A (1997) Taste Preferences and Food Intake. Annual Review of Nutrition. 17:237-253 [genetic taste markers; hedonic responses; food preferences; sugar; fat; nutrition transition].

Drewnowski A (2002) Taste, Genetics and Food Choices. in H Anderson; J Blundell; M Chiva (eds) Food Selection: from Genes to Culture. Danone Institute [preference].

Duran N; Dolan P (1997) Influences on Food Selection: A Selected Annotated Bibliography. Nutrition Today. 32:82-85 [bibliography; preference; food choice].

Fa JE; Juste JL; Burn RW, et al. (2002) Bushmeat Consumption and Preferences of Two Ethnic Groups in Bioko Island, West Africa. Human Ecology. 30:397-416 [food choice; ecology; Equatorial Guinea; Bubi; Farg].

Fallon AE; Rozin P (1983) The Psychological Basis of Food Rejections by Humans. Ecology of Food and Nutrition. 13:15-26 [selection; psychology of aversions].

Feldman C (2005) Roman Taste. Food, Culture and Society: An International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research. 8:7-30 [history; An Informative Collection -- click for detailspreference; social status; Europe; Rome].

Fieldhouse P (1986) Food and Nutrition: Customs and Cuisine. Croom Helm [food selection; general survey].

Garine I de (1997) Food Preferences and Taste in an African Perspective: A Word of Caution. in H Macbeth (ed) Food Preferences and Taste. Berghahn, pp. 187-207 [cultural affects on food choice; Africa; Cameroon; Massa; Muzey; Yassa; Mvae].

Gibson L (1981) The Psychology of Food: Why We Eat What We Eat When We Eat It. Food Technology. 35:54-56 [food selection; psychology of food; food consumption; theoretical approaches].

Gittelsohn J; Vastine AE (2003) Sociocultural and Household Factors Impacting on the Selection, Allocation and Consumption of Animal Source Foods: Current Knowledge and Application. Journal of Nutrition. 133:4036S-4041S [food choice; proscriptions; meat eating; mother & child nutrition].

Necessary Reading -- click for detailsGrivetti LE; Paquette MB (1978) Nontraditional Ethnic Food Choices among First Generation Chinese in California. Journal of Nutritional Education. 10:109-112 [food habit change; food selection; North America; United States; Chinese].

Hamilton W (1987) Omnivorous Primate Diets and Human Overconsumption of Meat. in M Harris; E Ross (eds) Food and Evolution. Temple University Press, pp. 117-132 [non-human primates; hominid evolution, food preference; meat].

Harbottle L (1997) Taste and Embodiment: The Food Preferences of Iranians in Britain. in H Macbeth (ed) Food Preferences and Taste. Berghahn, pp. 175-185 [choice of foods; Europe; West Asia; Iran].

Hawkes K; Hill K; O'Connell J (1982) Why Hunters Gather, Optimal Foraging Theory and the Ache of Eastern Ache Paraguay. American Ethnologist. 9:379-398 [ecology; optimal foraging theory; diet selection; hunters and gatherers; South American Indians; Paraguay; Ache].

Hemingway C (1998) Selectivity and Variability in the Diet of Milne-Edwards Sifakas. International Journal of Primatology. 19:355- [non-human primates; food choice].

Hertzler A; Standal B (1980) Classifying Cultural Food Habits and Meanings. Journal of the American Dietetic Association. 82:421-425 [classification of foods; food habits; symbolic meanings; preference, selection and taste].

Hetherington MM (2002) The Physiological-Psychological Dichotomy in the Study of Food Intake. Proceedings of the Nutrition Society. 61:497-507 [appetite; food preference; pleasure; meal size; theory and method].

Hladik CM (1997) Primate Models for Taste and Food Preferences. in H Macbeth (ed) Food Preferences and Taste. Berghahn, pp. 15-26 [taste perception; human and non-human primates].

Hladik CM; Simmen B (1996) Taste Perception and Feeding Behavior in Nonhuman Primate and Human Populations. Evolutionary Anthropology. 5:58-71 [behavioral evolution; taste and preference].

Hubert A (1997) Choices of Food and Cuisine in the Concept of Social Space among the Yao of Thailand. in Food Preferences and Taste. H Macbeth (editor). 167-174. Berghahn. [food preferences; social relations; spatial meaning; meal pattern; Southeast Asia ]

Huss-Ashmore R; Johnston SL (1997) Wild Plants as Famine Foods: Food Choice under Conditions of Scarcity. in H Macbeth (ed) Food Preferences and Taste. Berghahn, pp. 83-100 [food shortage; choice].

Ishihara J; Bobitt N; Schemmel R (1999) Typical Food Selections of Japanese Children Living in the United States: Comparison with the Recommendations of the Usda Food Guide Pyramid. Ecology of Food and Nutrition. 37:503- [food selection; North America; United States; Japanese children].

Jerome N (1975) Flavor Preferences and Food Patterns of Selected U S and Caribbean Blacks. Food Technology. 29:46-51 [preference; flavor; food habits; North America; United States; Caribbean].

Jerome N (1979) Changing Nutritional Styles within the Context of the Modern Family. in DP Hymovich; MU Bernard (eds) Family Health Care. McGraw-Hill, pp. 194- [change; food choice; North America; United States].

Johnston SL (2001) Food Choice Is Shaped by Accessibility: How Sources of Food Have Changed over Time for the Blackfeet. Nutritional Anthropology. 24:3-9 [food system; selection; change; North American Indian; Blackfeet].

Jones MO (1987) The Proof Is in the Pudding: The Role of Sensation in Food Choice as Revealed by Sensory Deprivation Exploring Folk Art: Twenty Years of Thought on Craft, Work, and Aesthetics. UMI Research Press, pp. 97-106- [foodways; cookery; preference; sensory properties of food; North American; United States].

Kanafuni A (1983) Aesthetics and Ritual in the United Arab Emirates: The Anthropology of Food and Personal Adornment among Arabian Women. American University Beirut [sensory preferences; taste; meaning; Middle East].

Kandel RF; Pelto G (1980) The Health Food Movement: Social Revitalization of Alternative Health Maintenance System. in NW Jerome; RF Kandel; GH Pelto (eds) Nutritional Anthropology. Pleasantville: Redgrave, pp. 327-363- [food preference; categorization; health food; social movement; revitalization; North America; United States].

Kilbourne J (1994) Still Killing Us Softly: Advertising and the Obsession with Thinness. in P Fallon; MA Katz; SC Wooley (eds) Feminist Perspectices on Eating Disorders. Guildford, pp. 395-418- [body image; eating attitudes; disordered eating; advertising and food choice; North America].

Kim E; Schroeder K; Dwyer J (1999) Two Small Surveys, 25 Years Apart, Investigating Motivations of Dietary Choice in 2 Groups of Vegetarians in the Boston Area. Journal of the American Dietetic Association. 99:598- [food choice; vegetarian diet; North America; United States; Boston].

Kottak C (1978) Rituals at Mcdonalds. Natural History. 87:74-83 [preference; ritual; fast food; North America; United States].

Krondl M; Coleman P (1986) Social and Biocultural Determinants of Food Selection. Progress in Food and Nutritional Science. 10:179-203 [food choice].

Krondl M; Lau D (1983) Social Determinants in Human Food Selection. in LM Baker (ed) The Psychobiology of Human Food Selection. AVI, pp. 139-151 [food selection; social relations].

Kunz G, Kaminsky P (2001) The Elements of Taste. Little, Brown and Company. [taste and flavor; cookery]

Laird DA; Breen WJ (1939) Sex and Age Alterations in Taste Preferences. Journal of the American Dietetic Association. 15:549-550 [physiology; taste preference].

Lannon J (1986) How People Chose Food: The Role of Advertising and Packagings. in C Ritson; L Gofton; J McKenzie (eds) The Food Consumer [food choice].

Leary J (1981) Cross-Cultural Studies of Factors Related to Differential Food Consumption. Human Relations Area Files [food selection].

MacDonald BA; Watts B; Fitzpatrick D (1993) Comparison of Taste Thresholds in Selected Canadian and Peruvian Populations. Ecology of Food and Nutrition. 30:241-251 [physiology; taste; North America; South America; Canada; Peru].

Manderson L; Mathews M (1981) Vietnamese Behavioral and Dietary Precautions During Pregnancy. Ecology of Food and Nutrition. 11:1-8 [food choice; avoidances; pregnancy; childbirth; Southeast Asia; Vietnam].

Marshall D; Bell R (2003) Meal Construction: Exploring the Relationship between Eating Occasion and Location. Food Quality and Preference. 14:53-64 [food preference; selection; statistical analysis].

McKie L; Clark GM; Skerratt S (1998) The Promotion of Healthy Eating: Food Availability and Choice in Scottish Island Communities. Health Education Research. 13:371- [choice; nutrition education; health; Europe; Great Britain; Scotland].

Mintz S; Schlettwein-Gsell D (2001) Food Patterns in Agrarian Societies: The "Core-Fringe-Legume Hypothesis," A Dialogue. Gastronomica. 1:41-59 [meal structure; cultural history; taste].

Moskowitz H (1975) Cross-Cultural Differences in Simple Taste Preferences. Science. 190:1217-1218 [preference; sour; South Asia; India].

Moskowitz H; Beckley J; Adams J (2002) What Makes People Crave Fast Foods? Nutrition Today. 37:237-242 [preference; consumer culture].

Murcott A (2002) Nutrition and Inequalities. European Journal of Public Health. 12:203-207 [inequalities; nutrition; public understandings; social relations; taste].

O'Mahony M; Alba CM (1980) Taste Descriptions in Spanish and English. Chemical Senses. 5:47-62 [language; taste; Spanish; English].

O'Mahony M; Tsang T (1980) A Preliminary Comparison of Cantonese and American-English as Taste Languages. British Journal of Psychology. 71:221-226 [language, taste, Cantonese; American-English].

Palmerino C (1983) Pleasing the Palate: Diet Selection and Learning. in M Jones (ed) Foodways and Eating Habits. Folklore Society of California [selection; aversion; psychology].

Pangborn RM (1975) Cross-Cultural Aspects of Flavor Preference. Food Technology. 26:34-36 [taste and preference].

Pfaffmann C (1978) Neurophysiological Mechanisms of Taste. Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 31:1058-1067 [taste].

Pliner P; Pelchat M (1991) Neophobia in Humans and the Special Status of Foods of Animal Origin. Appetite. 16:205-218 [meat eating; psychology of preference].

Pollock NJ (1974) Breadfruit or Rice? Dietary Choice on a Micronesian Atoll. Ecology of Food and Nutrition. 3:107-115 [food selection; Oceania].

An Informative Collection -- click for detailsRappaport L (2003) How We Eat: Appetite, Culture, and the Psychology of Food. ECW. [review; food habits; preferences; emotions; values]

Rolls ET (1997) Neural Processing Underling Food Selection. in Food Preferences and Taste. H Macbeth (editor). 39-53. Berghahn. [neurological control of food preferences; non-human primates; Macca mulatta; Macca fascicularsis]

Rozin E (1973) The Flavor-Principle Cookbook [preference; flavor; recipes].

Rozin E (1982) The Structure of Cuisine. in LM Barker (ed) The Psychobiology of Human Food Selection. AVI, pp. 189-203 [theory; taste and preference].

Rozin E; Rozin P (1981) Culinary Themes and Variations. Natural History. 90:6-14 [preference; flavor].

Rozin P (1976) Psychobiological and Cultural Determinants of Food Choice. in T Silverstone (ed) Appetite and Food Intake [choice; psychology].

Rozin P (1976) The Selection of Food by Rats, Humans, and Other Animals. in JS Rosenblatt; RA Hinde; E Shaw; C Beer (eds) Advances in the Study of Behavior. Academic Press [food choice].

Necessary Reading -- click for detailsRozin P (1983) Human Food Selection: The Interaction of Biology, Culture and Individual Experience. in LM Baker (ed) The Psychobiology of Human Food Selection. AVI [food preferences; psychobiology of dietary choice].

Rozin P (1987) Psychobiology Perspectives on Food Preferences and Avoidances. in M Harris; E Ross (eds) Food and Evolution. Temple University Press [preference; avoidance; psychology].

Essential Reference -- click for detailsRozin P (1996) The Socio-Cultural Context of Eating and Food Choice. in HL Meiselman; HJH MacFie (eds) Food Choice, Acceptance and Consumption. Blackie Academic and Professional [food selection].

Rozin P (2000) The Psychology of Food Choice. in KF Kiple; KC Ornelas (eds) The Cambridge World History of Food. Cambridge University Press, pp. 1476-1486 [categories; preferences; selection; neophobia; disgust].

Rozin P (2002) Human Food Intake and Choice: Biological, Psychological, and Cultural Perspectives. in H Anderson; J Blundell; M Chiva (eds) Food Selection: from Genes to Culture. Chauveheid, Stavelot, Juilett [food selection].

Rozin P; Fallon AE (1980) The Psychological Categorization of Foods and Non-Foods: A Preliminary Taxonomy of Food Rejections. Appetite. 1:193-201- [psychological categories; taste and preference; food avoidance].

Rozin P; Fallon AE (1981) The Acquisition of Likes and Dislikes for Food. in J Solms; R Hall (eds) Criteria of Food Acceptance [preference; psychology].

Rozin P; Markwith M; Stoess C (1997) Moralization and Becoming a Vegetarian: The Transformation of Preferences into Values and the Recruitment of Disgust. Psychological Science. 8:67-73 [vegetarian; preference; taboo].

Rozin P; Schiller D (1980) The Nature and Acquisition of a Preference for Chili Pepper by Humans. Motivation and Emotion. 4:77-101 [foodstuff; taste and preference].

Shephard R; Raats MM (1996) Attitudes and Beliefs in Food Habits. in HL Meiselman; HJH MacFie (eds) Food Choice, Acceptance and Consumption. Blackie Academic and Professional [meaning; choice].

Simmen B (1997) Food Preferences in Neotropical Primates in Relation to Taste Sensitivity. in H Macbeth (ed) Food Preferences and Taste. Berghahn, pp. 27-37 [food choice; non-human primates; red howler monkey; black spider monkey; South America; French Guiana].

Simoons FJ (1982) Geography and Genetics as Factors in the Psychobiology of Human Food Selection. in LM Barker (ed) The Psychobiology Recommended -- click for detailsof Human Food Selection. AVI, pp. 205-224 [human evolution; theory; food preference].

Smith E (1983) Anthropological Application of Optimal Foraging Theory. Current Anthropology. 24:625-652 [ecology; diet; food preference].

Sokolov R (1991) Why We Eat What We Eat. Touchstone Book, Simon and Schuster [collected essays; psychology; aversion; taste].

Spindler AA; Schultz JD (1996) Comparison of Dietary Variety and Ethnic Food Consumption among Chinese, Chinese American, and White Women. Journal of Agriculture and Human Values. 131:64-73 [food choice; women; East Asia; North America; Chinese; Chinese Americans].

Storey M; Bass MA; Wakefield LM (1986) Food Preferences of Cherokee Teenagers in Cherokee, North Carolina. Ecology of Food and Nutrition. 19:51-59 [preference; North American Indians; Cherokee].

Sussman RW (1978) Foraging Patterns of Non-Human Primates and the Nature of Food Preferences in Man. Federation Proceedings, Anthropology and the Assessment of Nutritional Status. 37:55-60 [non-human primates; human evolution; food preference and choice].

Turmo IG (1997) The Pathways of Taste: The West Andalucian Case. in H Macbeth (ed) Food Preferences and Taste. Berghahn, pp. 115-126 [food choice; ecology; social relations; Europe; Spain; Seville; Cadiz; Huelva].

Warde A (1997) Consumption, Food and Taste: Culinary Antinomies and Commodity Culture. Sage [food selection; determinants of taste; social relations; Europe; United Kingdom].

Wheeler M; Haider SQ (1979) Buying and Food Preparation Patterns of Ghetto Blacks and Hispanics in Brooklyn. Journal of the American Dietetic Association. 75:560-563 [food selection; cookery; North America; United States; New York; Brooklyn; African Americans; Hispanic Americans].

Williams DE; Knowler WC; Smith CJ, et al. (2001) The Effect of Indian and Anglo Dietary Preference on the Incidence of Diabetes in Pima Indians. Diabetes Care. 24:811-816 [acculturation; food preference; nutrition and disease; North American Indians; Pima].

Young G (2004) Wok Hay: The Breath of the Wok. Gastronomica. 4:26-30 [Cooking technique; stir-fry; taste concept; East Asia; China].

updated 03/2006

 

NEW
from California

Click on image for details.

Main Page



Featured Book

Click on image for details

Eye Opening -- Click for details

A visual anthropology of food

Well-written lessons -- click for details
A journalist explores four food chains
  photo-chronicle of visits to 30 families in 24 countries for 600 meals
  Copyright © 2002, 2008. All rights reserved.