Food Cultures and Customs: Food for Good in Action

The Rural Sociology Group coordinates a course called Food Cultures and Customs with the Philosophy Group.

The course is dedicated to examining the role that food plays in and across cultures. Food culture is understood to be the expression of how people value food and everything connected to food. As such, this course is an exploration into the ever changing social functions of food.

This means that we do not look at different cultures  and what they eat.  Instead, it entails an examination of the attitudes and assumptions that shape people’s lives; the rituals and beliefs that mark their identities; and the ways foods are grown, processed, sold and consumed in particular places. 

In this course we ask some big questions: