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Types of Hunger

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2 types of hunger

  • to be physically hungry
  • satisfy a craving
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Food Taboos

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Food Taboos

  • eating identifies differences in cultures
  • religious
  • defines a group and their identity
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Food in Social Structure not the same Historically

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Food in the social structure was not the same Historically

  • our current time poor people eat more fast food than affluent
  • idea of social structure continues
  • Advertising got people to believe fast food is good for you

Groups have an identity that that is SHAPED around what they eat and what they don’t eat

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Expansion of Sugar

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Sugar

  • started to become a global commodity
  • becomes luxury for Europeans
  • increase in slaves (by Europeans) decreases the price of crops
  • Europeans become merchant elites
  • becomes more accessible to society
  • becomes the main stay for European diet (used in all food)
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First globalized economy

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  • access filters down to middle class

- accessible to everyone

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Sugar & The Social Structure

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Sugar & The Social Structure

  • notion of power
  • control commodity  realizes the value
  • controlled by middle person
  • control commodity  gain political economic power
  • there is revolving for gov. official and food companies
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Food Production

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  • Consumption patterns shape identity
  • Things do change
  • Being constructed by advertisement, globalization
  • Critically analyzing it makes you see who benefits?
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Through Geographers we learn

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Through Geographers we learn

  • most food cooked by women
  • culture in relation to environment (benefits of landscape; rivers banks, etc.)
  • used environment to find and eat food
  • majority of food eaten, we domesticated (same time around the world)
  • long distance maritime (things related to sea) moving plants around the world
  • research foodwaste
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Food Chain & Sugar

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Food Chain & Sugar

  • sugar is being transformed by food chains
  • demand fits in social hierarchy
  • Parallels the world
10
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Subsistence Strategies

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Subsistence (maintaining at minimum) Strategies

  • tells us alternative headways about food production
  • tied to oil economy
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Where is food produced

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Where is food produced

  • in the tropics
  • with temperate climate
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Types of Crops/farming

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Types of Crops/farming
Monocrop & Monoculture
- in the northern hemisphere
- was called fixed farms
- had cattle and crops
Poplycrop
- found in the tropics
- seasonality and cold weather affects crops (killing)
- rational system of agriculture – more crops grown at once  increases biodiversity of farm
- growing variety of crops utilizes all areas of soil

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Food & Identity

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Food & Identity

  • food helps people identify who they are
  • ex. Middle class didn’t have sugar until it became cheap & accessible
  • had to buy food because they could no longer grown them
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Sugar becomes more accessible

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Sugar becomes more accessible

- consumption encouraged because it gave people more energy to work

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Power Relations

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Power Relations

  • things can change including identity
  • how you treat animals correlated how you treat people
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Cultural funds of knowledge

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Cultural funds of knowledge

  • passed down through generations
  • gender specifically passed down (men do this, women do that)
  • striving to achieve diets rich in nutrients
  • trying to understand food as something we grow and the process in between
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Monoculture & Polyculture

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Monoculture – before the industrial
• Only one crop at a time
Polyculture – tropics of the world; used to conserve soil
• Corn, beans, squash – Trifecta
• 3 different crops that you can grow in the same place

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Food Scientist - 5 taste

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Recognize 5 taste 
•	Sour
•	Bitter
•	Sweet
•	Salty
•	Umami – savory – southeast Asian – fermented fish taste

What taste good is actually culturally mediated

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Crops

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Two different types of Crops
•	Root crops Tubers
o	Potato 
o	Sugarcane 
o	Yams
o	Bananas 
o	Come from tropical areas
o	Grows under the ground 
o	Vegetative reproduction 
o	Can use the root to plant a new one
•	Seed crops 
o	Major Vegetables
o	Rice 
o	Corn 
o	Take seed and put them in the soil 
o	Grow above the soil
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Tubers

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Tubers
• Ground itself. You don’t have to harvest. You can move around
• Continuously harvested 6 mo.-2 years
• What you want to eat is underground so it limits the animals from eating it
• Identical relative of the original

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Seeds

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Seeds
• Stay in places where they could protect their food reserves
• Lots of different types of varieties

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Farming Systems

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  • Drying technique
  • Keeping a variety of systems
  • People went for variety vs just one
  • People were deliberately growing red corn, purple corn – they would create spontaneous breeds