Anthropology of Food

In the News . . .

• Craft or curse? How American barbecue turned trendy -- The Guardian (01 February 2023)
  
  
• A sweet Asian spin on American BBQ -- BBCtravel (04 July 2022)
  
  
• Asada: The true essence of Mexican barbecue -- BBCtravel (06 May 2022)
  
  
• From sizzling shashlik to spicy seekh kebabs: barbecue recipes from around the world -- The Guardian (22 July 2020)
  
  
• Where barbecue culture began? -- BBCNews (30 June 2020)
  
  
• Is this the most authentic Korean barbecue? -- BBCNews (28 January 2020)
  
  
• Where to find good barbecue in Minnesota -- MPRNews (03 April 2019)
  
  
• Zarb: The Bedouin answer to barbecue -- BBCtravel (04 September 2018)
  
  
• Tokyo in Texas: Distinctive Japanese Food Is Thriving in Austin -- The New York Times (30 April 2018)
  
  
• Uruguay hosts world's biggest barbecue beating Argentina -- BBCNews (20 December 2017)
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• The great barbecue vs Tex-Mex debate -- BBCtravel (17 May 2017)
  
  
• Eggtoberfest Is The Comic-Con For Big Green Egg Heads -- Food Republic (13 October 2016)
  
  
• Australian election: strewth! let's throw a #democracysausage on the barbie -- The Telegraph (01 July 2016)
  
  
• The right way to eat sausage in Prague -- BBCTravel (03 February 2016)
  
  
• Archaeologist 3D Scans World's Oldest Preserved Ham And Peanut -- Forbes (15 December 2015)
  
  
• Party Like It's 2500 B.C.: Feasts at Stonehenge Were Epic Barbecues -- NPR (09 December 2015)
  
  
• Southern Barbecue With a Fiery Dip and a Deep History -- The New York Times (23 October 2018)
  
  
• Stonehenge builders had barbecue feasts at nearby party centre -- New Scientist (14 October 2015)
  
  
• The People Who Built Stonehenge Loved BBQ -- Smithsonian (14 October 2015)
  
  
• Recreated Pit Roast Offers a Taste of Stone Age Life -- LiveScience (02 September 2015)
  • In Photos: A Stone Age Barbecue Pit -- LiveScience (02 September 2015)
    
    
• Black pitmasters left out of US barbeque boom -- BBC News (24 August 2015)
  
  
• The dark side of the humble barbeque -- BBC News (23 August 2015)
  
  
• Barbecue is an American tradition – of enslaved Africans and Native Americans -- Michael W Twitty, Guardian (04 July 2015)
  
  
• The mysterious sausage that even presidents can’t resist -- BBC News (07 January 2015)
  
  
• Possible Prehistoric Barbeque Pit Discovered -- Cyprus Mail (14 October 2014)
  
  
• Franklin BBQ, By the Numbers [Franklin's, Austin,TX, "5 hour wait, and their sold out by 2:30p.  7,600 lbs pf meat per week"] -- Julia Bainbridge, Yahoo Food (10 March 2014)
  
  
• Texas Monthly Barbecue
  
  
• Why Fire Makes Us Human -- Jerry Adler, The Smithsonian Magazine (June 2013)
  
  

• Byers, Tim. Smoke: New Firewood Cooking. NY: Rizzoli, 2012 (Reprinted 2013).
  
  
  
  
  
• The Center for Genomic Gastronomy ["The Center for Genomic Gastronomy Is an artist-led think tank that examines the biotechnologies and biodiversity of human food systems"]
  
  
• McGee, Harold. The Curious Cook: More Kitchen Science and Lore. NY: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 1990.
  
  
• McGee, Harold. On Food and Cooking. NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1984.
  
  
• Meat, Fire And The Evolution Of Man -- NPR (02 August 2010)
  
  
• Pollan, Michael. Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation. NY: Penguin, 2013.
  
  
• Salami and sausages the traditional way -- BBC News (7 February 2008)
  
  
• Texas Monthly Barbecue
  
  
• Thorn, Stuart. The History of Food Preservation. Rowman & Littlefield, 1986. [Totowa, NJ: Barnes & Noble, 1986]
  
  
• Vaughn, Daniel. The Prophets of Smoked Meat: A Journey Through Texas Barbecue. NY: Ecco/HarperCollins, 2013.
  
  
• Weiss, Brad. Real Pigs: Shifting Values in the Field of Local Pork. Durham: Duke University Press, 2016.
  
  
• Wilson, Anne C. Waste Not, Want Not: Food Preservation from Early Times to the Present Day. Edinburgh Universitiy Press, 1992.