Conversations With Food offers readers an array of essays revealing the power of food (and its absence) to transform relationships between the human and non-human realms; to define national, colonial, and postcolonial cultures; to help instantiate race, gender, and class relations; and to serve as the basis for policymaking.
Food functions in these contexts as items in religious or secular law, as objects with which to bargain or over which to fight, as literary trope, and as.