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<h2 id="research-questions">Research questions</h2> <p>Qualitative research questions include impact on the <a href="/facts/Environment_(biophysical)/PNzMrGrz">environment</a>, the <a href="/facts/Food_ethics/6A1zdAmI">ethics of eating</a>, how food contributes to <a href="/facts/Oppression/7Mp3lUwq">systems of oppression</a>, and its use as symbols of <a href="/facts/Identity_(social_science)/hCR165VD">identity</a>. Basic questions include Who chooses what we eat and why, traditional <a href="/facts/Food_preparation/47HVCwae">food preparation</a>, the boundary between culinary heritage and <a href="/facts/Invented_traditions/mzQLbor6">invented traditions</a>, and how to teach the subject. This has led to the development of the concept of "foodscape"<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a> and the practice of foodscape mapping.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a> </p><p>Specific issues include food insecurity.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> Food education has health implications, especially with <a href="/facts/Fast_food_advertising/ktUPqeSc">highly advertised fast food</a>,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a> and the prevalence of obesity in young people.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Anthropology_of_food/gjBXYxeL">Anthropology of food</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Culinary_art/ekcLxQhq">Culinary art</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Food_choice/C4V12Dvp">Food choice</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Food_preferences_in_older_adults_and_seniors/WNQ01a1a">Food preferences in older adults and seniors</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Food_science/FBjv8Gba">Food science</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Foodways/8hgJ1eP8">Foodways</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Gastronomy/FRqL0Brm">Gastronomy</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/List_of_food_and_drink_magazines/hvem19uX">List of food and drink magazines</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Nutrition/SMJ3Dhfs">Nutrition</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Sociology_of_food/orq4NDhg">Sociology of food</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Timeline_of_food/vLexDATf">Timeline of food</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Vegan_studies/FojlzBtE">Vegan studies</a></li></ul> <h2 id="further-reading">Further reading</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Ken_Albala/RynfrhK2">Albala, Ken</a> (2013). <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=dPXypPFIgFwC&pg=PAfrontcover"><i>Routledge International Handbook of Food Studies</i></a>. London; New York: <a href="/facts/Routledge/aSwcES11">Routledge</a>. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 9781136741661. <a href="/facts/OCLC_(identifier)/Yqad8waq">OCLC</a> <a href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/8419126771">8419126771</a>. Retrieved 2016-02-09.</li> <li>Belasco, Warren James (2008). <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=fPNc3uA3OmgC&pg=PAfrontcover"><i>Food: The Key Concepts</i></a>. Oxford; New York: Berg. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 9781847884572. <a href="/facts/OCLC_(identifier)/Yqad8waq">OCLC</a> <a href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/422763149">422763149</a>. Retrieved 2016-02-09.</li> <li>Belasco, Warren James (2006). <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=7a5XPNRFt3IC&pg=PAfrontcover"><i>Meals to Come: A History of the Future of Food</i></a>. Berkeley, CA, US: <a href="/facts/University_of_California_Press/r11UnrYP">University of California Press</a>. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 9780520940468. <a href="/facts/OCLC_(identifier)/Yqad8waq">OCLC</a> <a href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/123767968">123767968</a>. Retrieved 2016-02-09.</li> <li>Counihan, Carole (2004). <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=nBXjnm8OhaAC&pg=PAfrontcover"><i>Around the Tuscan Table: Food, Family and Gender Twentieth Century Florence</i></a>. New York, NY: <a href="/facts/Routledge/aSwcES11">Routledge</a>. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 9780203491003. Retrieved 2016-02-09.</li> <li>Counihan, Carole; Van Esterik, Penny, eds. (2013). <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=uO210jcx0ZUC&pg=PAfrontcover"><i>Food and Culture: A Reader</i></a> (3rd ed.). London; New York: <a href="/facts/Routledge/aSwcES11">Routledge</a>. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 9780203079751. <a href="/facts/OCLC_(identifier)/Yqad8waq">OCLC</a> <a href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/842228999">842228999</a>. Retrieved 2016-02-09.</li> <li>Curtin, Deane W; Heldke, Lisa M, eds. (1992). <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=Hq9dT_iH8xsC&pg=PAfrontcover"><i>Cooking, Eating, Thinking: Transformative Philosophies of Food</i></a>. Bloomington, IN, US: <a href="/facts/Indiana_University_Press/rSAxbGec">Indiana University Press</a>. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 9780253207043. <a href="/facts/OCLC_(identifier)/Yqad8waq">OCLC</a> <a href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/654676797">654676797</a>. Retrieved 2016-02-09.</li> <li>Heldke, Lisa (2003). <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=HgHtACwAAQBAJ&pg=PAfrontcover"><i>Exotic Appetites: Ruminations of a Food Adventurer</i></a>. New York, NY: <a href="/facts/Taylor_and_Francis/tLDanRJg">Taylor and Francis</a>. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 9781317827740. <a href="/facts/OCLC_(identifier)/Yqad8waq">OCLC</a> <a href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/935253692">935253692</a>. Retrieved 2016-02-09.</li> <li>Holtzman, Jon (2009). <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=lwj4Mtqum-sC&pg=PAfrontcover"><i>Uncertain Tastes: Memory, Ambivalence, and the Politics of Eating in Samburu, Northern Kenya</i></a>. Berkeley, CA, US: <a href="/facts/University_of_California_Press/r11UnrYP">University of California Press</a>. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 9780520944824. <a href="/facts/OCLC_(identifier)/Yqad8waq">OCLC</a> <a href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/609850084">609850084</a>. Retrieved 2016-02-09.</li> <li>Koç, Mustafa; Sumner, Jennifer; Winson, Anthony, eds. (2012). <i>Critical Perspectives in Food Studies</i>. <a href="/facts/Oxford_University_Press/CYyTzzWG">Oxford University Press</a>. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 9780195446418. <a href="/facts/OCLC_(identifier)/Yqad8waq">OCLC</a> <a href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/791165424">791165424</a>.</li> <li><a href="/facts/James_E._McWilliams/JRBs5kh9">McWilliamsn, James E.</a> (2010). <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=ntqjF0BOISMC&pg=PAfrontcover"><i>Just Food: Where Locavores Get It Wrong and How We Can Truly Eat Responsibly</i></a>. Boston, MA, US: Back Bay. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 9780316148566. <a href="/facts/OCLC_(identifier)/Yqad8waq">OCLC</a> <a href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/894025491">894025491</a>. Retrieved 2016-02-09.</li> <li>McIntosh Alex, 1996, <i>Sociologies of Food and Nutrition. Environment, Development, and Public Policy</i>, <a href="/facts/Springer_Science%252BBusiness_Media/nAesf6nT">Springer</a>, <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-1-4899-1387-6</li> <li><a href="/facts/Sidney_Mintz/9j9qzMyP">Mintz, Sidney W</a> (1985). <i>Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History</i>. New York, NY: <a href="/facts/Penguin_Books/Q2ETlwbp">Penguin Books</a>. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 9780670687022. <a href="/facts/OCLC_(identifier)/Yqad8waq">OCLC</a> <a href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/646968332">646968332</a>.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Pollan%2c_Michael/YC7wvVLF">Pollan, Michael</a>. <i>In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto</i>. New York: Penguin Press, 2008.</li> <li>Pollan, Michael. <i>The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals</i>. New York: Penguin Press, 2006.</li> <li>Poulain, Jean Pierre, 2017, The Sociology of Food: Eating and the Place of Food in Society, <a href="/facts/Bloomsbury_Publishing/TSWtV2Bl">Bloomsbury</a>, <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-1472586216,</li> <li>Sutton, David. 2001. Remembrance of Repasts: An Anthropology of Food and Memory. Oxford: Berg.</li> <li>Weissman, Evan; Gantner, Leigh; Narine, Lutchmie (25 June 2012). <a href="https://doi.org/10.5304%2Fjafscd.2012.023.010">"Building a Food Studies Program: On the Ground Reflections from Syracuse University"</a>. <i>Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development</i>: 79–89. <a href="/facts/Doi_(identifier)/muM9Etpq">doi</a>:<a href="https://doi.org/10.5304%2Fjafscd.2012.023.010">10.5304/jafscd.2012.023.010</a>.</li> <li>Wilk, Richard, ed. <i>Fast Food/Slow Food: The Cultural Economy of the Global Food System</i>. Walnut Creek: Altamira Press, 2006.</li> <li>Yasmeen, Gisèle (1992). "Bangkok's Restaurant Sector: Gender, Employment and Consumption". <i>Journal of Social Research</i>. 15 (2): 69–81.</li> <li>Yasmeen, Gisèle. <i>Bangkok's Foodscape</i>, Bangkok: White Lotus, 2006.</li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="http://afhvs.org/">Agriculture, Food & Human Values Society</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.food-culture.org">The Association for the Study of Food and Society</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"The Food Section - Food News, Recipes, and More". Thefoodsection.com. Retrieved 23 October 2018. <a href="http://www.thefoodsection.com/foodsection/2009/05/foodscape.html" target="_blank">http://www.thefoodsection.com/foodsection/2009/05/foodscape.html</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>"Foodscape Mapping". Ediblegeography.com. Retrieved 23 October 2018. <a href="http://www.ediblegeography.com/foodscape-mapping/" target="_blank">http://www.ediblegeography.com/foodscape-mapping/</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Gundersen, Craig; Ziliak, James P. (November 2015). "Food Insecurity And Health Outcomes". Health Affairs. 34 (11): 1830–1839. doi:10.1377/hlthaff.2015.0645. PMID 26526240. ProQuest 1731536048. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1377%2Fhlthaff.2015.0645" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1377%2Fhlthaff.2015.0645</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Davis, Brennan; Carpenter, Christopher (March 2009). "Proximity of Fast-Food Restaurants to Schools and Adolescent Obesity". American Journal of Public Health. 99 (3): 505–510. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2008.137638. PMC 2661452. PMID 19106421. ProQuest 215085006. <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2661452" target="_blank">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2661452</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>"Childhood Obesity Facts". CDC. Retrieved 18 February 2019. <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/childhood.html" target="_blank">https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/childhood.html</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>Story, Mary; Kaphingst, Karen M.; French, Simone (2006). "The Role of Schools in Obesity Prevention". The Future of Children. 16 (1): 109–142. doi:10.1353/foc.2006.0007. JSTOR 3556553. PMID 16532661. S2CID 41356576. ProQuest 1519298729. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" target="_blank">/wiki/Doi_(identifier)</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>