Food and the Internet ― Proceedings of the 20th International Ethnological Food Research Conference

A selection from scholarly papers delivered at the 20th International Ethnological Food Research Conference in September 2014. Papers discuss food culture in an age when it is influenced by trans-cultural food knowledge, global marketing, and new eating habits and food practices. The book is divided into the same six categories as was the conference: The Internet As Local, National and Global Cookbook and Culinary Research Tool; Food, Marketing and the Internet; The Internet and Food Values: Ethics, Aesthetics, Environment, Health and Lifestyle; Food, Gender, Identity and the Internet; Food Blogging as a New Genre; and Food: Ancient and Medieval in the Light of Internet Source. Examples of topics covered are as follows: internet recipes, the comeback of homemade food, traditional Slovene dishes, and mushrooms; Irish food as a tourist attraction, local food discourse in Quebec, and communication of food information through the internet in Japan; slow food in Scotland, the Mediterranean diet, and seasonal food; food and gender in Brazilian websites, an example of Hungarian and Polish food blogging; and a database of medieval plant names. Annotation c2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Violetta Krawczyk-Wasilewska is Professor of Ethnology at the University of Lodz (Poland). She is the author of numerous articles and books on the theory of folklore, cultural ecology and digital culture and has also developed e-folklore research at an international scholarly level.
Patricia Lysaght is em. Professor of European Ethnology at the University College in Dublin (Ireland). She is President of the Working Group on Food Research at SIEF (International Society for Ethnology and Folklore) and contributing editor of many of the group’s international conference publications.