Food and Eating: An Anthropological Perspective

Food and Eating:An Anthropological Perspective

We have to eat; we like to eat

A profoundly social urge:food is almost always shared

Nutrition plays only a small part in our food choices

All cultures go to considerable lengths to obtain preferred foods; ignore valuable food sources close at

hand

What we eat becomes a most powerful symbol of who we are

Food identification:ethnic, religious, class