For this 2025 special issue, the Graduate Journal of Food Studies seeks submissions exploring the intersections of food and loss. We invite graduate students and early career scholars across all disciplines to reflect on how loss—individual, collective, ecological, cultural, or otherwise—reshapes foodways, agricultural practices, and gastronomic imaginaries.
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This article expands the theoretical connections between food and regionalism by examining the role of the Columbian dish, Bandeja Paisa. The attempt to pass it as a national dish highlights the longstanding legacies of conflict and cultural hegemony between regions, particularly in Latin America.
Adrian Bresler’s paper examines the impact of the US federal government’s low-fat dietary recommendations in the 1980s on restaurant menus. Bresler’s research analyzes menus from Boston University’s John Mariani Menu Collection, highlighting the influence of societal, culinary, and economic factors on food trends.
Manuela Ramírez Pérez reflects on her experience dining at the acclaimed Colombian restaurant Celele. The restaurant, known for reinventing Caribbean cuisine with local ingredients, sparked her interest in exploring the relationship dynamics between the chefs and the peasant communities and highlighting the potential of gastronomy to reconnect communities with their territories.
Danielle Jacques and Alessandra Del Brocco present a case study from central Maine highlighting the gendered nature of farmland loss due to solar expansion. Their paper emphasizes the need to break from ongoing cycles of dispossession and proposes a feminist energy systems approach.
Soil is a critical component of all living systems. In this piece, Chouinard highlights the harmful impact of human-centered valuations of soil, emphasizing the need to recognize global soil erosion is an existential threat to humanity.
A creative writing piece drawing from diverse fields like sociology, philosophy, and literature explores the complex intersections of time, power, climate, and trauma.
Our climate is changing—how will we? In this special issue, the Graduate Journal of Food Studies seeks research […]
The use of science in food marketing is so commonplace that we take it as a given – but can the claims made in these advertisements be trusted? O’Hagan assesses the case of the supposed health food Biomin, released onto the Swedish market in 1937.
The political controversy surrounding the ‘sausage wars’ is the most recent episode in the long history of the relationship between meat and nationalism in the UK. Tracing a historical genealogy of the post-Brexit sausage wars, this article asks: what exactly has been–and continues to be–British about meat?
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