Pub Date : 2003-09-01DOI: 10.2752/152897903786769607
Richard W. Ryan
This paper will examine the emergence of border cuisine along the U.S.-Mexican international boundary in the vicinity of Calexico, California and Mexicali, Mexico. It is not an exaggeration to say that the border is an unknown region for most Americans. While borders certainly have their share of volatility, particularly with illegal immigration activities, the border crossing and region described in this paper are generally stable, rooted strongly in commercial and family foundations. Environmental problems, traffic congestion, and the persistent cat and mouse game of illegal crossings and Border Patrol arrests are commonplace. Yet, the overall motif is one of daily life moving along at a synchronized pace. Trucks carrying manufactured goods and RVs (recreational vehicles) driven by Canadians or Californians head into Mexicali. In the early morning, day laborers drive or walk into Calexico from the Mexican side hoping to be employed in labor intensive field work by Imperial Valley growers. Later they are followed by "soccer moms" driving their children to private Catholic schools in Calexico and EI Centro in Ford Explorers. "Fundamentally, border culture or the border wqy if life, is rooted in the influences that the border exerts on fronterizos .... (B)orderlanders are surrounded by internationality; they go from one nation to the other frequently on shopping trips, on business, or for leisure. Transnational interaction is normal and routine." (Martinez, 1997:94) Where people go, they bring along their food preferences. What makes the border interesting from a culinary perspective is that the "back-andforth" is a way of life, and that fronterizos, the people who live on either side of the border, develop a juxtaposition of food that is not usually associated vith one country's food preferences or the other. The so-called purists in either country may not claim or recognize meals found in the border region, and this is exactly what makes border food so interesting and attractive to research. At the same time, there is a core menu that is adhered to in all restaurants serving Mexican food in the Mexicali-Calexico border area.
{"title":"Is it Border Cuisine or Merely a Case of NAFTA Indigestion?","authors":"Richard W. Ryan","doi":"10.2752/152897903786769607","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2752/152897903786769607","url":null,"abstract":"This paper will examine the emergence of border cuisine along the U.S.-Mexican international boundary in the vicinity of Calexico, California and Mexicali, Mexico. It is not an exaggeration to say that the border is an unknown region for most Americans. While borders certainly have their share of volatility, particularly with illegal immigration activities, the border crossing and region described in this paper are generally stable, rooted strongly in commercial and family foundations. Environmental problems, traffic congestion, and the persistent cat and mouse game of illegal crossings and Border Patrol arrests are commonplace. Yet, the overall motif is one of daily life moving along at a synchronized pace. Trucks carrying manufactured goods and RVs (recreational vehicles) driven by Canadians or Californians head into Mexicali. In the early morning, day laborers drive or walk into Calexico from the Mexican side hoping to be employed in labor intensive field work by Imperial Valley growers. Later they are followed by \"soccer moms\" driving their children to private Catholic schools in Calexico and EI Centro in Ford Explorers. \"Fundamentally, border culture or the border wqy if life, is rooted in the influences that the border exerts on fronterizos .... (B)orderlanders are surrounded by internationality; they go from one nation to the other frequently on shopping trips, on business, or for leisure. Transnational interaction is normal and routine.\" (Martinez, 1997:94) Where people go, they bring along their food preferences. What makes the border interesting from a culinary perspective is that the \"back-andforth\" is a way of life, and that fronterizos, the people who live on either side of the border, develop a juxtaposition of food that is not usually associated vith one country's food preferences or the other. The so-called purists in either country may not claim or recognize meals found in the border region, and this is exactly what makes border food so interesting and attractive to research. At the same time, there is a core menu that is adhered to in all restaurants serving Mexican food in the Mexicali-Calexico border area.","PeriodicalId":285878,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the Study of Food and Society","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116975626","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2003-09-01DOI: 10.2752/152897903786769599
W. Nichols
The Spanish author Manuel Vazquez Montalbin adopts and adapts the style and essence of noir, from fUmas well as novel, to project a post-Franco Spain overcome with crime, corruption and uncertainty. Vazquez Montalban's writing ranges from avant-garde poetry to experimental novels to philosophical essays and investigative journalism, yet his detective series fuses hard-boiled realism with postmodern explorations of truth, politics and writing. His detective, Pepe Carvalho, a Galician who lives in Barcelona (a.k.a. "charnego"), possesses a complex identity that includes a contradictory past as an Communist protestor during the 1950s in Francoist Spain, then as a CIA assassin in the United States yet who now prefers a safe, cynical distance from the trappings of any ideology that purports to project "truth." Vazquez Montalban injects the "noir" realism of the Carvalho series with irony, iconoclasm, intertextuality and self-reflection in a postmodern investigation that questions cultural codes, defies genre categorization and confuses the distinction between "High" and "Popular" art.! Carvalho's distrust and rejection of culture is best articulated in the detective's two most striking idiosyncrasies: his 'penchant' for burning books and his passion for gourmet cooking.2
{"title":"Savoring the Past: Collective Amnesica, Consumer Culture and Gastronomic Memory in Vazquez Montalban's","authors":"W. Nichols","doi":"10.2752/152897903786769599","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2752/152897903786769599","url":null,"abstract":"The Spanish author Manuel Vazquez Montalbin adopts and adapts the style and essence of noir, from fUmas well as novel, to project a post-Franco Spain overcome with crime, corruption and uncertainty. Vazquez Montalban's writing ranges from avant-garde poetry to experimental novels to philosophical essays and investigative journalism, yet his detective series fuses hard-boiled realism with postmodern explorations of truth, politics and writing. His detective, Pepe Carvalho, a Galician who lives in Barcelona (a.k.a. \"charnego\"), possesses a complex identity that includes a contradictory past as an Communist protestor during the 1950s in Francoist Spain, then as a CIA assassin in the United States yet who now prefers a safe, cynical distance from the trappings of any ideology that purports to project \"truth.\" Vazquez Montalban injects the \"noir\" realism of the Carvalho series with irony, iconoclasm, intertextuality and self-reflection in a postmodern investigation that questions cultural codes, defies genre categorization and confuses the distinction between \"High\" and \"Popular\" art.! Carvalho's distrust and rejection of culture is best articulated in the detective's two most striking idiosyncrasies: his 'penchant' for burning books and his passion for gourmet cooking.2","PeriodicalId":285878,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the Study of Food and Society","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127906451","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2003-09-01DOI: 10.2752/152897903786769625
G. Gillespie
(2003). Visual Sociology and Food. Journal for the Study of Food and Society: Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 7-8.
(2003)。视觉社会学与食物。食品与社会研究杂志:第6卷，第2期，第7-8页。
{"title":"Visual Sociology and Food","authors":"G. Gillespie","doi":"10.2752/152897903786769625","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2752/152897903786769625","url":null,"abstract":"(2003). Visual Sociology and Food. Journal for the Study of Food and Society: Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 7-8.","PeriodicalId":285878,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the Study of Food and Society","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129328181","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2003-09-01DOI: 10.2752/152897903786769643
N. Duran
Food on the farm is often thought to be better and fresher than in cities because all farmers had gardens. This could be true for at least part of the year if all farmers did have gardens and city people did not. Although there is little specific research on farm gardens in the United States, it is clear from the literature that not all farms had gardens in the early 20th century. Better off farmers were more likely to have a garden, and to grow more types of vegetables. The poorest farmers, such as sharecroppers, often had no garden. Some crops, such as corn, were grown as a field crop and also used for the family. Other factors such as location and weather directly influenced the production potential of the garden. Gardens were also seasonal so storage preparation time and facilities were important. The data for this conclusion comes mostly from dietary studies and family-living (or cost-of-living) studies carried out at various Experiment Stations. The percentage of farmers who had gardens clearly varied with economic level, area of the country, and personal interest.
{"title":"All Farms had Gardens in the 20th Century, or Did They?","authors":"N. Duran","doi":"10.2752/152897903786769643","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2752/152897903786769643","url":null,"abstract":"Food on the farm is often thought to be better and fresher than in cities because all farmers had gardens. This could be true for at least part of the year if all farmers did have gardens and city people did not. Although there is little specific research on farm gardens in the United States, it is clear from the literature that not all farms had gardens in the early 20th century. Better off farmers were more likely to have a garden, and to grow more types of vegetables. The poorest farmers, such as sharecroppers, often had no garden. Some crops, such as corn, were grown as a field crop and also used for the family. Other factors such as location and weather directly influenced the production potential of the garden. Gardens were also seasonal so storage preparation time and facilities were important. The data for this conclusion comes mostly from dietary studies and family-living (or cost-of-living) studies carried out at various Experiment Stations. The percentage of farmers who had gardens clearly varied with economic level, area of the country, and personal interest.","PeriodicalId":285878,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the Study of Food and Society","volume":"79 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126176418","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2003-09-01DOI: 10.2752/152897903786769661
Christie Smith
Using interviews with 21 Appalachian Kentucky residents and out-migrants, this paper examines the ways in which food plays a central role in constructing, maintaining, and transforming a sense of regional identity. In contrast to much work on Appalachia, the participants in this study suggest that, while their regionality is important, they participate in larger cultural productions and find ways to incorporate both the familiar ways and mass food culture into understandings of what it means to be Appalachian.
{"title":"Food and Culture in Appalachian Kentucky: An Ethnography","authors":"Christie Smith","doi":"10.2752/152897903786769661","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2752/152897903786769661","url":null,"abstract":"Using interviews with 21 Appalachian Kentucky residents and out-migrants, this paper examines the ways in which food plays a central role in constructing, maintaining, and transforming a sense of regional identity. In contrast to much work on Appalachia, the participants in this study suggest that, while their regionality is important, they participate in larger cultural productions and find ways to incorporate both the familiar ways and mass food culture into understandings of what it means to be Appalachian.","PeriodicalId":285878,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the Study of Food and Society","volume":"242 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121331806","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2003-09-01DOI: 10.2752/152897903786769652
Nancy Lee. Turpin
Chocolate exhibits in the 1900 Paris Universal Exposition told tourists the legend of chocolate's long journey from French queen to French worker and then gave them a taste of the French chocolate trade.! More than fifty million visitors eagerly purchased their blue tickets to visit the Paris world's fair in 1900. Those who saw and tasted the story of French chocolate could learn that achieving social peace between labor and capital might be as easy and pleasant as drinking a cup of hot chocolate. The state used its Universal Exposition to demonstrate that only the Republic could unite the diverse French nation to achieve a program of socialand economic progress. This article is the story of how French chocolate was pressed into the service of the Third Republic at the 1900 Paris Universal Exposition. French world's fairs were always affairs of state, whether that state was directed by revolutionary committee, king, emperor or elected republican officials. At the turn of the twentieth century the seasoned Third Republic government was sorting out the aftermath of the Dreyfus Affair, the latest national crisis. During that same two-year period the 1900 Paris world's fair was built and ran. Both of those complex events took place during the twoyear crisis of an unprecedented number of labor strikes all over France.
{"title":"Hot Chocolate: The Social Question in the Chocolate Exhibits at the 1900 Paris Universal Exposition","authors":"Nancy Lee. Turpin","doi":"10.2752/152897903786769652","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2752/152897903786769652","url":null,"abstract":"Chocolate exhibits in the 1900 Paris Universal Exposition told tourists the legend of chocolate's long journey from French queen to French worker and then gave them a taste of the French chocolate trade.! More than fifty million visitors eagerly purchased their blue tickets to visit the Paris world's fair in 1900. Those who saw and tasted the story of French chocolate could learn that achieving social peace between labor and capital might be as easy and pleasant as drinking a cup of hot chocolate. The state used its Universal Exposition to demonstrate that only the Republic could unite the diverse French nation to achieve a program of socialand economic progress. This article is the story of how French chocolate was pressed into the service of the Third Republic at the 1900 Paris Universal Exposition. French world's fairs were always affairs of state, whether that state was directed by revolutionary committee, king, emperor or elected republican officials. At the turn of the twentieth century the seasoned Third Republic government was sorting out the aftermath of the Dreyfus Affair, the latest national crisis. During that same two-year period the 1900 Paris world's fair was built and ran. Both of those complex events took place during the twoyear crisis of an unprecedented number of labor strikes all over France.","PeriodicalId":285878,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the Study of Food and Society","volume":"118 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123217059","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2003-09-01DOI: 10.2752/152897903786769580
Actor-networks and political economy are not dualistic opposites: A critical commentary on the new agrifood studies Alan RJI{!y-Michigan S tate University Whether derived from science or consumption studies, the sociology of agrifood systems is increasingly emphasizing material and consumer agency. The majority of this work represents itself as a counter and corrective to a purported hegemonic structuralism within the sociology or political economy of agriculture. However, political economy is a wideranging field, much of it relational in a manner that presupposes an intimate connection between consumption and production (whether in the form of productive consumption or consumption as reproduction). Unfortunately, rather than explore the production of new and historical forms of consumer agencies (or material actancy) the majority of the new scholarship brackets traditionally political economic question as to 1) the material and ideological conditions that constrain prior (production-oriented) forms of politics and enable new (consumption-oriented) ones, and 2) the uneven spatial, social and ecological distribution of these new agencies. In the context of organic, anti-BST, or anti-G~,JO consumer purchasing patterns and advocacy movements neither 1) the relations that tie retail oligopolies and consumer politics together nor 2) those relations that connect "food deserts" in rural areas and inner city areas to the market conditions that make retailers responsive to the desires and politics of high end fresh fruit, vegetable and meat consumers are addressed. Rather than the seamless actor-networks of Latour, this paper stresses the differential agencies and coalitions of Haraway's situated knowledges as a means of integrating political economic and post -structural theories of agrifood systems.
{"title":"Local Democracy: Sustaining Healthy Community through Ethical, Sustainable Food Systems","authors":"","doi":"10.2752/152897903786769580","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2752/152897903786769580","url":null,"abstract":"Actor-networks and political economy are not dualistic opposites: A critical commentary on the new agrifood studies Alan RJI{!y-Michigan S tate University Whether derived from science or consumption studies, the sociology of agrifood systems is increasingly emphasizing material and consumer agency. The majority of this work represents itself as a counter and corrective to a purported hegemonic structuralism within the sociology or political economy of agriculture. However, political economy is a wideranging field, much of it relational in a manner that presupposes an intimate connection between consumption and production (whether in the form of productive consumption or consumption as reproduction). Unfortunately, rather than explore the production of new and historical forms of consumer agencies (or material actancy) the majority of the new scholarship brackets traditionally political economic question as to 1) the material and ideological conditions that constrain prior (production-oriented) forms of politics and enable new (consumption-oriented) ones, and 2) the uneven spatial, social and ecological distribution of these new agencies. In the context of organic, anti-BST, or anti-G~,JO consumer purchasing patterns and advocacy movements neither 1) the relations that tie retail oligopolies and consumer politics together nor 2) those relations that connect \"food deserts\" in rural areas and inner city areas to the market conditions that make retailers responsive to the desires and politics of high end fresh fruit, vegetable and meat consumers are addressed. Rather than the seamless actor-networks of Latour, this paper stresses the differential agencies and coalitions of Haraway's situated knowledges as a means of integrating political economic and post -structural theories of agrifood systems.","PeriodicalId":285878,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the Study of Food and Society","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123575054","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2003-09-01DOI: 10.2752/152897903786769689
D. Sykes
Through the use of content analysis, food ads are examined to determine if characteristics of other-direction (Riesman 1950) can be detected. Previous studies offer mixed conclusions in their attempt to pinpoint a rising other-directed trend. This study offers two analyses. Analysis one examines food ads from the 1920s through the 1990s. Analysis two compares differences in a variety of magazines that were created for different audiences and at different time periods. While quantitative examination yields limited results, a qualitative examination provides greater evidence of change. It is concluded that food ads are becoming increasingly symbolic of pleasure. Magazines that market to children and/or were established in later time periods are less subtle in their approach to marketing food as pleasure than those established in earlier, inner-directed periods.
{"title":"Food as Pleasure: Other Directedness in Food Ads","authors":"D. Sykes","doi":"10.2752/152897903786769689","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2752/152897903786769689","url":null,"abstract":"Through the use of content analysis, food ads are examined to determine if characteristics of other-direction (Riesman 1950) can be detected. Previous studies offer mixed conclusions in their attempt to pinpoint a rising other-directed trend. This study offers two analyses. Analysis one examines food ads from the 1920s through the 1990s. Analysis two compares differences in a variety of magazines that were created for different audiences and at different time periods. While quantitative examination yields limited results, a qualitative examination provides greater evidence of change. It is concluded that food ads are becoming increasingly symbolic of pleasure. Magazines that market to children and/or were established in later time periods are less subtle in their approach to marketing food as pleasure than those established in earlier, inner-directed periods.","PeriodicalId":285878,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the Study of Food and Society","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120982078","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2003-09-01DOI: 10.2752/152897903786769670
E. Power
In our culture, the image has become more powerful than the word, and perhaps more than ever, both social agents and social researchers “know more than we can say” in words. Yet sociological knowledge production and representation remain firmly rooted in text. In this paper, I argue that visual methods, such as film, photography and video, can expand knowledge production in the study of food and society, and represent that knowledge more richly and forcefully. In their capacities to evoke the sensual, non-rational, and material aspects of life, visual methods are well suited to the study of a subject such as food, which encompasses social processes from the embodied and tacit experiences of preparing and consuming food, to complex global configurations of power. I begin with the limitations of logo-centric sociology. Concentrating on photography, I move to a brief history of this method in sociology and discuss epistemological issues related to the contemporary postfoundationalist practice of visual sociology. Finally, I turn to a discussion of three main types of visual research activities: producing visual images; collaborating with research participants to produce visual images; and examining pre-existing images.
{"title":"De-Centering the Text: Exploring the Potential for Visual Methods in the Sociology of Food","authors":"E. Power","doi":"10.2752/152897903786769670","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2752/152897903786769670","url":null,"abstract":"In our culture, the image has become more powerful than the word, and perhaps more than ever, both social agents and social researchers “know more than we can say” in words. Yet sociological knowledge production and representation remain firmly rooted in text. In this paper, I argue that visual methods, such as film, photography and video, can expand knowledge production in the study of food and society, and represent that knowledge more richly and forcefully. In their capacities to evoke the sensual, non-rational, and material aspects of life, visual methods are well suited to the study of a subject such as food, which encompasses social processes from the embodied and tacit experiences of preparing and consuming food, to complex global configurations of power. I begin with the limitations of logo-centric sociology. Concentrating on photography, I move to a brief history of this method in sociology and discuss epistemological issues related to the contemporary postfoundationalist practice of visual sociology. Finally, I turn to a discussion of three main types of visual research activities: producing visual images; collaborating with research participants to produce visual images; and examining pre-existing images.","PeriodicalId":285878,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the Study of Food and Society","volume":"194 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124338543","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2003-09-01DOI: 10.2752/152897903786769616
Ella Annette Bitto, L. Morton, Mary Jan Oakland, Mary Sand
Many small rural towns have lost local grocery stores to larger, more centralized towns. As a result they become food deserts, places with no or few proximate food stores. This study examines differences among rural food desert residents and their access to grocery store patterns. We find that households in two rural lowa counties regularly shop two grocery stores weekly and travel about 18 minutes each way. While most residents of these counties use their own vehicle to obtain food, older persons and those with limited incomes are more likely to be dependent on family, friends, neighbors and others. Sixteen percent of open country compared to 11 percent of rural town residents regularly shop for food out-of-county at supercenters, discount and wholesale food stores. An increasingly rural aging population suggests lower mobility, isolation, and future access to food store concerns as retail food consolidation continues. Policy makers need to examine rural transportation systems and develop an infra-structure that links elderly and low-income individuals to retail food sources on a regular basis.
{"title":"Grocery Store Acess Patterns in Rural Food Deserts","authors":"Ella Annette Bitto, L. Morton, Mary Jan Oakland, Mary Sand","doi":"10.2752/152897903786769616","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2752/152897903786769616","url":null,"abstract":"Many small rural towns have lost local grocery stores to larger, more centralized towns. As a result they become food deserts, places with no or few proximate food stores. This study examines differences among rural food desert residents and their access to grocery store patterns. We find that households in two rural lowa counties regularly shop two grocery stores weekly and travel about 18 minutes each way. While most residents of these counties use their own vehicle to obtain food, older persons and those with limited incomes are more likely to be dependent on family, friends, neighbors and others. Sixteen percent of open country compared to 11 percent of rural town residents regularly shop for food out-of-county at supercenters, discount and wholesale food stores. An increasingly rural aging population suggests lower mobility, isolation, and future access to food store concerns as retail food consolidation continues. Policy makers need to examine rural transportation systems and develop an infra-structure that links elderly and low-income individuals to retail food sources on a regular basis.","PeriodicalId":285878,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the Study of Food and Society","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122259307","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
京公网安备 11010802042870号
京ICP备2023020795号-1
扫码关注我们
求助内容：
应助结果提醒方式：