How and why do we humans “play” with the food we eat, and on which we depend for our lives, in so many different ways—creatively, profoundly, and consequentially?
Joseph Nagy
This interdisciplinary course is dedicated to exploring the proposition that the act of eating, in human civilizations from ancient to contemporary, and all the processes associated with eating—including finding, making, enjoying, and talking about food; feasting and fasting; digestion and its expected consequences and effects—that all these constitute a culture, a complex system of shared practices, beliefs, and worldview that both reflects and “feeds into” the cultures of particular communities.... Read more about Eating Culture: Past, Present, and Future (Gen Ed 1195)