“You Are What You Eat”: Oprah, Amarillo, and Food Politics

2020 ◽  
pp. 171-194
Author(s):  
Callie F. Kostelich ◽  
Heidi Hakimi-Hood
Keyword(s):  
Food Politics

Still Life, With Lobster

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 94-102
Author(s):  
Kelly Alexander
Keyword(s):  
Emmanuel Levinas ◽  
Still Life ◽  
Food Politics ◽  
Symbolic Gesture ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
Political Statement ◽  
Existentialist Philosopher ◽  
Swiss Government

On March 1, 2018, the Swiss government enacted a ban against boiling live lobsters to death. This article explores the significance of that ban: Is it a political statement, a symbolic gesture, or both? In asking those questions, the author seeks to understand what kind of food politics are at play when a country bans a cooking technique. Drawing upon such seemingly disparate works as David Foster Wallace's landmark essay “Consider the Lobster,” the author's own ethnographic fieldwork in an haute cuisine restaurant in Europe, and the teachings of the French existentialist philosopher Emmanuel Levinas, this article argues that regulations over how we kill the animals that will become our food are ripe for reconsideration.

Eat Local? Constructions of Place in Alternative Food Politics

2010 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 355-369 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edmund M. Harris
Keyword(s):  
Alternative Food ◽  
Food Politics

scholarly journals ‘Try it, it’s like chocolate’: embodied methods reveal food politics

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 265-284 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Wilbur ◽  
Leah Gibbs
Keyword(s):  
Food Politics
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