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Another moving memorial for our friend and fellow food scholar, Jeff Sobal. news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/0…

It is with great sadness that we inform you of the passing of longtime ASFS member Jeff Sobal. Jeff was a Cornell nutrition department sociologist, an ardent supporter of food studies research, and a kind friend to all. Read his obituary here: lansingfuneralhome.com/obituaries/jef…

Our @SCSD_Food staff recently presented at the 2024 @afhvs_org and @ASFS_org Conference, speaking in a session on Food Insecurity and Food Justice about a SNAP expansion and the National School Lunch Program. We're proud of their leadership! #SCSDSuccess

🏆🏆🏆 I’m thrilled to share that my book Food Power Politics won the 2024 Association for the Study of Food & Society (@ASFS_org) First Book Prize! ASFS is the premier professional organization for Food Studies & I am thankful to be honored by my peers! More soon. #GodIsAble 🙏🏾

The @asfs_org / @afhvs_org annual meetings are quite special. Where else can you learn about farmers in the middle, and then have the chance to taste climate change through wine (along with a social network analysis). So thankful for this community! And, I got to see my book!

While I got no photos, our @ASFS_org/@afhvs_org conference was a delight! So thankful to be included and getting to learn more from these food scholars working in #NewOrleans #foodstudies

Was humbled to be in community and conversation with Desiree Lewis, Hanna Garth, @KanjiSuch , and Janaka Lewis @ASFS_org

The books are being gobbled up at @ASFS_org! Don't forget to place your orders by tomorrow morning. #foodstudies24

Winding down our #foodstudies24 author content for this year's conference from @ASFS_org, Daniel Jaffee presents an excerpt from his latest book UNBOTTLED: tinyurl.com/4zb7rpwr This book and others are available at the @scholar_choice table!

Behind on my #foodstudies2024 posts because there's just so much going on! Inspiring and inspired keynote by Leah Penniman of @soulfirefarm to a full house was definitely a highlight! #foodjustice @ASFS_org

My doctoral student, Maria Muñoz, sharing next steps from our work examining disaster response plans & food security (in collab with ⁦@DrSariaHassan⁩) at the ⁦@ASFS_org⁩ ⁦@afhvs_org⁩ Right to Food Meeting. ⁦@TulaneSPHTM⁩ #TulaneNutrition

@ASFS_org listening to brilliant Palestinian chefs/activists/scholars @SalmaSerry moderate Palestine fooways under occupation featuring Chef Fadi, Yara Dowani, Jude Abu, and Yasmeen El-Hasan

Excited about this morning's session on #foodsecurity. First up, @mamaphilosopher Noah Hirschl & colleagues on their fabulous research at the Food Security Innovation lab @VermontFoodbank, lots of valuable lessons about collaborating with communities. #foodstudies2024 @ASFS_org

This is why you should go to food studies conferences! #foodascommons @afhvs_org @ASFS_org

Listening to a stellar panel on transnational feminist food studies at the ASFS-AFHVS conference at Syracuse University @ASFS_org @afhvs_org “In the work of South African scholar, Desiree Lewis, she rightly points out many of the blind spots of early scholarship in North American feminist food studies that assumes a global north perspective and calls for more transnational feminist food studies (2005). In Eating While Black, Forson expands an intersectional framework while centering race especially for Black women. By bringing transnational feminist food scholars into conversation with intersectional scholars of color in the global north, we can move past some of these overly simplistic analyses of women and food. This roundtable based on a forthcoming volume which seeks to center voices that have been marginalized in food studies, to include positionality as a valuable perspective and to advance discussions about decolonizing food studies both in terms of colonialism but also in terms of location through decentering whiteness and addressing settler colonialism, caste, heteronormativity and gender binaries.”

@B_Classic Congratulations on the @ASFS_org first book prize! I saw this just now, and right in time as I will be discussing your book (along with Kwate's book) with my graduate student this afternoon. What a great story, which deserves recognition! #foodstudies2024

As part of @ASFS_org's #foodstudies24 conference, we'd like to highlight some original content by our Food Studies authors. WHY SNAP WORKS author Chris Bosso talks about his new book and why support for SNAP is vital: tinyurl.com/56ctykss

Always a fan of the @ASFS_org Newsletter. Extra fun this time since it features my book (alongside other great food books by @ABentleyNYC @FParasecoli @Raykris1 @JanisThiessen and others)! #FromLabelToTable

@ComedoErgoSum @ABentleyNYC @FParasecoli @Raykris1 @JanisThiessen Congrats on the new pub! And thanks for the newsletter love!

We can't wait to follow along with #foodstudies24 this week!