Food and Culture

1. Classifying Foods

1.1. Omnivorous does not mean indiscriminate eating;instead it implies eating a wide range of foodstuffs thereby acquiring sufficient energy and nutrients.pg 5 Crowther

1.2. Cosmology-A conceptual mental map of existence, the order of people, things,forces, and space. Encompasses how the totality works.

2. Settled Ingredients

2.1. Ancestral cuisines emerged from the food getting strategies of the world's indigenous and ethnic groups.pg 29 Crowther

2.2. Evolutionary gastronomy-nutritional anthropologist who consider ethnic cuisines as evidence of long term gene food interaction that emerged through environmentally specific selection pressures-such as disease and drought led to discernible genetic changes in ethnic populations

3. Mobile Ingredients: Roots Routes and Realities of Industrialized Agriculture

3.1. The Colombian Exchange changed the global distribution of food crops, migrating species away from their sites of domestication to be grown and localized in distant places. pg 66 Crowther

3.2. Invented tradition- An important concept that focuses on the processes to accommodate change and uncertainty through introducing new, repetitive, ritual-like practices.practices such as cooking Christmas pudding and wearing kilts.

4. Cooks and Kitchens

4.1. Physical Change, Water Content change, Chemical change These basic techniques are the foundation of all cuisines, but employed in slightly a different ways to produce culturally familiar food. Pg98.pg 99 Crowther

4.2. Epicurean- Used to describe a person with refined and fastidious taste, especially in food and wine.

5. Recipes and Dishes

5.1. The word recipe is derived from receipt, a tally of received and accepted information, just as a recipe represents an agreed- upon list of ingredients, methods and an outcome- a dish. pg 132 Crowther

5.2. Social capital- Pierre Bourdieu's term to describe the importance of extensive social networks of people that enable them to draw upon information, and economic and poltical support.