My understanding of junk food revolves around my new knowledge about the US corn surplus (thank you, Michael Pollan) and the human biological drives toward sugar and fat.
Oh, of course! I really need to read that book; I usually forget to think about the industrial-agricultural aspect of food beyond my local farmer's market.
Are they? Please, pontificate at length!
Hrm, I am going to have to think about this more! I realized I am not quite sure how and why I think of junk food and street food and etc. as cultural artifacts and thus as anthropologically interesting things, but I suspect it will be post-length instead of comment-length.
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Oh, of course! I really need to read that book; I usually forget to think about the industrial-agricultural aspect of food beyond my local farmer's market.
Are they? Please, pontificate at length!
Hrm, I am going to have to think about this more! I realized I am not quite sure how and why I think of junk food and street food and etc. as cultural artifacts and thus as anthropologically interesting things, but I suspect it will be post-length instead of comment-length.