When, what, and how much to consume? Whether explicit or implicit, these questions shape cyclical religious fasts and feasts and underlie quotidian practice. In their observance, these rules and rituals…

The "discovery" of food as an academic subject and well as increasing prominence in popular culture and discourse has created new technologies, organizational structures, and venues for talking about and…

Finding familiar foods when one is away from home, especially when part of a diaspora community, can challenge the outsider to find new ways of enacting innate rituals to maintain…