These papers explore how French writers have deeply engrained notions of what hospitality is (or should be) and have trained gimlet eyes on those opening their homes and establishments to…

Discourses around what we "should" eat can be metonyms for larger cultural issues. In the case of meat traditions versus vegetarianism/veganism, racial, religious, and social justice tensions lie just under…

Unveiling the narratives behind blood as food and exploring ritualized behaviours around water, this panel explores the cultural and social connection we make with everyday elements of sustenance and ritual.…

A cuisine is a structured culinary system with implicit and, occasionally, explicit rules that are understood by those in the group to delineate "us" from "them." In this panel, the…

The adage, 'cleanliness is next to godliness' frames ways in which sacred and carnal spaces can share common ground. The secular but conspicuously cathedral-like architecture of the Smithfield Market is…