@article{Mares_2017, place={Ithaca, NY, USA}, title={CULTIVATING COMIDA: Finding Comida in Our Everyday Lives}, volume={7}, url={https://foodsystemsjournal.org/index.php/fsj/article/view/532}, DOI={10.5304/jafscd.2017.073.016}, abstractNote={<p><em>First paragraph:</em></p> <p>As a professor, I am convinced that tinkering with a course syllabus is one of the best parts of the job. Each semester (admittedly, sometimes just a few days before it starts), redesigning the outline of required texts, assignments, and course expectations gives me a thrill that few other aca­demic obligations do. This routine yet incredibly creative task allows me to stay up-to-date on the latest research, return to the classics, and consider what this generation of students <em>must know </em>about the anthropology of food. Over the course of ten years, from the time I was a graduate student to my current faculty position, I have had the pleasure of teaching various iterations of a class on Food and Culture. This class has ranged from a summer seminar of just 20 students to a large lecture of over 100, and from the University of Washington campus in urban Seattle to the University of Vermont, located in a state where we joke that cows outnumber people. Across these differences of time and geography, the ever-changing develop­ments in the international movements for food justice, food sovereignty, and local food systems have provided a compelling framework for con­templating the meaning of food and our relation­ship to it. From the time of Mary Douglas and Marvin Harris arguing over the symbolic and eco­logical foundations for the pork taboo in Islamic and Jewish traditions to considering how LGBTQ rights intersects with food politics, the academic treatment of food is rarely dull....</p> <p>See the <a title="press release archive " href="http://www.icontact-archive.com/archive?c=488966&f=60033&s=84565&m=943708&t=257c360ddc23fcec50d37942ed548ee4169a6c0d76d51e227fa886af9ecdf0c7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">press release</a> for this article.</p>}, number={3}, journal={Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development}, author={Mares, Teresa M.}, year={2017}, month={Aug.}, pages={5–7} }