ANTH 205 Lecture 1

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Food and Cooking

History and culture through world cuisine

Syllabus

Meditate on Quotes:

• "Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are." —Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, The Physiology of Taste, 1825
• "And with our gastronomical growth will come, inevitably, knowledge and perception of a hundred ohter things, but mainly ouselves." —M. F. K. Fisher, How to Cook a Wolf, 1942

Spend most of time on other cultures (not our own)

Goal: Make better sense of the world.

Food and culture are deeply personal things. Don't be a jerk!

Textbook and reading materials:

• Hungry Planet: What the world eats
• Evans course reserve

Read designated unit readings by end of unit
Read specially designated readings by that day

Until Next Time

• Be sure to read The Importance of Anthropology (Ember et al.)
• Get textbook from bookstore