Food Contests around the World: Understanding Culture through Competition

Discover core concepts in the anthropology of food and food studies by exploring a fascinating array of food competitions and contests around the world.

From pepper-eating contests to televised culinary battles between celebrity chefs to the Course des Cafes in France, in which waiters must run a 2 kilometer course without spilling their trays, cultures around the world have found a myriad of ways to face off over food. This book uses food competitions – those contests in which food is a cen...