Unlike roasting or smoking, this food preparation method is closer to "rotten," per Levi-Strauss
Boiling
This commodity was used as a preservative, a medicine, and a seasoning
Sugar
The two kinds of sauce
Thick and thin
The belief that your own culture is the best one
ethnocentrism
Foods (or words) considered more "basic" are also called this -- in contrast with foods (or words) that are more distinctive
Marked
A white latex used in vegetarian cheese and leather goods comes from this fruit
Papaya
A container of food prepared by Japanese mothers for their kids
Obento
The manner of animal locomotion that is abominable across all spheres (land, sea, and air)
Swarming
The colloquial word for when something edible is placed between two edible carbohydrates
Sandwich
In Zumbagua, Ecuador, Mishqui (or sweet/tasty) is opposed to jayaj, which means this.
Hot, spicy; also exotic, condiment
This anthropologist (associated with material culture and historical anthropology) researched the relation between colonialism and the Industrial Revolution
Sidney Mintz
The country where Subanun is located (where the beer drinking happened)
the Phillippines
The days of Professor Leinaweaver's office hours, to which you are cordially invited to pop in!
Tues and Weds
In "Deciphering a Meal," the "social universe" with whom you will share this is larger than the "social universe" with whom you will share a meal.
Drinks
A lack of access to nutritious and culturally appropriate foods
Food insecurity
The word meaning "bread" or "gift" or "candy" in the Quichua language spoken in Zumbagua, Ecuador
Wanlla
Associated with "cultural materialism," this anthropologist argues that pigs were prohibited for ecological and economic reasons
Marvin Harris
The discipline (academic department) that Prof. Leinaweaver teaches in
Anthropology
This describes a sign with multiple meanings (e.g. apple = NYC, an apple a day keeps the doctor away, the food you give a teacher)
Polysemic
The conceptual disconnection of objects and the people and work that produced them
"Commodity Fetishism"
"A system of social relationships that are expressed in a biological idiom”
Kinship (or Relatedness)
Nu
The real (or formal) name of the Ratty
Sharpe Refectory