Food in Place

Editorial| August 01 2023 Food in Place Lisa Haushofer Lisa Haushofer Lisa Haushofer is a senior research associate at the Chair of the History of Medicine at the University of Zurich and the incoming assistant professor of food history at the University of Amsterdam. Her research is located at the intersection of the histories of food, science, medicine, and environment. lisa.haushofer@uva.nl Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar lisa.haushofer@uva.nl Gastronomica (2023) 23 (3): iv–vi. https://doi.org/10.1525/gfc.2023.23.3.iv Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Lisa Haushofer; Food in Place. Gastronomica 1 August 2023; 23 (3): iv–vi. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/gfc.2023.23.3.iv Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentGastronomica Search I love making lists. Recently, I sat down and made a list of all the times I’ve moved to a new place (an occupational hazard for precarious academics). I counted nineteen. Some of those moves required just shifting my possessions to a different habitat within a city; others involved changing continents, social insurance, health care, pension plan, and life stage. Some were for longer, some for shorter, and some for very short stays (in my mid-thirties, I moved seven times in as many years). During those periods of vagabondism, I learned to appreciate food as a means of connecting to new places and a constant that could outlast relocating. The pieces in this issue explore food’s various relationships to place. Place is central to the academic study of food as well as to lived personal, professional, and political engagements with food. Global food chains, local food movements, national cuisines, migrant... You do not currently have access to this content.