TY - JOUR AU - Mares, Teresa M. PY - 2017/08/28 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - CULTIVATING COMIDA: Finding Comida in Our Everyday Lives JF - Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development JA - J. Agric. Food Syst. Community Dev. VL - 7 IS - 3 SE - Column DO - 10.5304/jafscd.2017.073.016 UR - https://foodsystemsjournal.org/index.php/fsj/article/view/532 SP - 5-7 AB - <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&amp;f=60033&amp;s=84565&amp;m=943708&amp;t=257c360ddc23fcec50d37942ed548ee4169a6c0d76d51e227fa886af9ecdf0c7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">press release</a> for this article.</p> ER -