Teaching about food is hot. Whether on a vocation level in helping  students to imagine their relationship to food, providing a template for the experienced chef to first create dishes…

Gastronomy is constantly evolving, and the speed of change has been magnified in our globalizing world. This panel explores how traditional and iconic dishes in Indian, Singaporean, and Persian culinary…

Diplomatic gastronomic gifts (whether consumed literally or only with the imagination), productive exchanges between French and Russian chefs based on the political Franco-Russian Alliance of the turn of the twentieth…

Literature is replete with culinary references and descriptions, some of quotidian life, others of questionable, or at least unusual, connections to reality. All of these culinary images contain underlying messages…

Just as food can unite people in shared identities, it can also erect walls that define The Other, as this panel demonstrates. How does a food move from one enjoyed…

The modernist adage, ‘form follows function,’ implies that design is teleological, a mechanical application of obtaining an efficient result. But what is the role of imagination? This panel explores contemporary…

Science fiction, by definition, is an act of the imagination, but even the most resourceful aliens need to eat. Part of this panel investigates the futuristic foodways of these other…

Identity is a negotiation between an individual’s sense of self and the cultural milieu in which the individual is situated. This panel illustrates the tensions faced in creating one’s identity,…

This panel questions the nostalgia and mythic confidence in France’s agricultural heritage, the spiritually motivated community supported agriculture in rural New York that offers a ‘full diet’ to subscribers, and…