This conversation is part of a special issue on “Critical Nutrition” in which multiple authors weigh in on various themes related to the origins, character, and consequences of contemporary American nutrition discourses and practices, as well as how nutrition might be known and done differently. In this section authors discuss the impoverishment of nutritionism as a way of knowing and engaging with food, highlighting how nourishment is not amenable to either simplification or standardization. Some call for alternate ways of knowing food, through revitalizing tradition and culture, for example, and some emphasize engaging food through the senses. One author is skeptical that these other ways of knowing food can address real nutritional deficiencies.
Other Ways of Knowing Food
Jessica Mudry is Assistant Professor in the School of Professional Communication at Ryerson University in Toronto. Her book, Measured Meals: Nutrition in America (SUNY, 2009), as well as her current book project on the culture of the calorie, informs her contributions to this issue.
Jessica Hayes-Conroy is Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies at Hobart & William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York, where she teaches feminist geography, food studies, and environmental health. Her contributions here draw from her work in the co-edited volume, Doing Nutrition Differently (Ashgate, 2013).
Nancy N. Chen is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of Food, Medicine, and the Quest for Good Health (Columbia University Press, 2010).
Aya H. Kimura is Associate Professor in Women’s Studies at the University of Hawaii. Her contributions in this article draw on her book, Hidden Hunger: Gender and the Politics of Smarter Foods (Cornell, 2013).
Jessica Mudry is Assistant Professor in the School of Professional Communication at Ryerson University in Toronto. Her book, Measured Meals: Nutrition in America (SUNY, 2009), as well as her current book project on the culture of the calorie, informs her contributions to this issue.
Jessica Hayes-Conroy is Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies at Hobart & William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York, where she teaches feminist geography, food studies, and environmental health. Her contributions here draw from her work in the co-edited volume, Doing Nutrition Differently (Ashgate, 2013).
Nancy N. Chen is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of Food, Medicine, and the Quest for Good Health (Columbia University Press, 2010).
Aya H. Kimura is Associate Professor in Women’s Studies at the University of Hawaii. Her contributions in this article draw on her book, Hidden Hunger: Gender and the Politics of Smarter Foods (Cornell, 2013).
Jessica Mudry is Assistant Professor in the School of Professional Communication at Ryerson University in Toronto. Her book, Measured Meals: Nutrition in America (SUNY, 2009), as well as her current book project on the culture of the calorie, informs her contributions to this issue.
Jessica Hayes-Conroy is Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies at Hobart & William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York, where she teaches feminist geography, food studies, and environmental health. Her contributions here draw from her work in the co-edited volume, Doing Nutrition Differently (Ashgate, 2013).
Nancy N. Chen is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of Food, Medicine, and the Quest for Good Health (Columbia University Press, 2010).
Aya H. Kimura is Associate Professor in Women’s Studies at the University of Hawaii. Her contributions in this article draw on her book, Hidden Hunger: Gender and the Politics of Smarter Foods (Cornell, 2013).
Jessica Mudry is Assistant Professor in the School of Professional Communication at Ryerson University in Toronto. Her book, Measured Meals: Nutrition in America (SUNY, 2009), as well as her current book project on the culture of the calorie, informs her contributions to this issue.
Jessica Hayes-Conroy is Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies at Hobart & William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York, where she teaches feminist geography, food studies, and environmental health. Her contributions here draw from her work in the co-edited volume, Doing Nutrition Differently (Ashgate, 2013).
Nancy N. Chen is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of Food, Medicine, and the Quest for Good Health (Columbia University Press, 2010).
Aya H. Kimura is Associate Professor in Women’s Studies at the University of Hawaii. Her contributions in this article draw on her book, Hidden Hunger: Gender and the Politics of Smarter Foods (Cornell, 2013).
Jessica Mudry, Jessica Hayes-Conroy, Nancy Chen, Aya H. Kimura; Other Ways of Knowing Food. Gastronomica 1 August 2014; 14 (3): 27–33. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/gfc.2014.14.3.27
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