Tuesday, July 23, 2013

MCNY at Kalamazoo 2014
FOODWAYS I & II
May 8-11 2014



We seek papers from any discipline that speak to the theme of food. Suggested topics include but are not limited to the following: diets—seasonal, penitential, vegetarian, kosher, means-related, gender-appropriate, medically prescribed; hospitality; conviviality; table manners; eating and serving utensils; digestion; famine; hunger; gluttony; food and sex; food and gender; breastfeeding; Virgo Lactans; the production, consumption, and theology of Eucharistic bread; the occasions, locations, and rituals of eating together; food preservation; the ingredients, instructions, and sharing of recipes; the raw and the cooked; food guilds—their regulations and trade secrets; banquets and carnival; fasting and breaking fast; food on the move, local and distant, from place of production to market to place of consumption.

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