Variability and Change

This article examines how central Ohio winegrowers are able to manufacture “the taste of place” in the midst of a dominant global discourse that maintains a rhetoric of anthropogenic climate change. Importantly, this work positions climate as no…

Terroir and the Family Farm

I argue that the concept of terroir is related to ideas about locally produced foods and health or wellbeing. Consumer demand for local foods and an emerging interest in terroir hold great potential for mobilizing meaningful social change relate…

Introduction

This set of articles, based in recent ethnographic fieldwork by a new generation of anthropologists, taken together, make a compelling case that terroir continues to have a certain explanatory power; terroir, or the taste of place, reflects and …