“Before, we didn’t eat manioc flour”: Historical and social transformations in food techniques among Indigenous Peoples of the Rio Negro basin in the Brazilian Amazon

Manioc flour is currently considered one of the main foods consumed by Indigenous peoples in the Northwest Amazon. It is fundamental both to the traditional diet and to adding an “Indigenous flavor” to urban dishes. This article presents an analysi…

Call for papers: Extreme foods

For this call, we suggest the concept of extreme foods, to explore foodstuffs and eating practices that in certain situations and contexts, for different reasons and in different ways, are pushed to the margins of the mainstream, while yet held …