Instructors:
Lucy Jarosz (jarosz@u.washington.edu)
Ann Anagnost (anagnost@u.washington.edu)

Course Description:
This course explores how food production and consumption creates meanings, identities, relationships, and values that extend far beyond meeting our nutritional needs. It is organized thematically to include considerations of the industrialization of food, food and health, local and alternative food systems, hunger, and food democracy movements. The learning objectives for this course are to encourage a deeper understanding of these themes, to enhance your ability to synthesize and analyze issues and debates among the topics, and to reveal how the questions and concepts introduced each session are applicable to your lives.

Readings:
Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma (Penguin Press, 2006) is the only assigned reading for this course. But we hope it will just be the beginning of your explorations. We have included many suggestions for further reading (and viewing) for those who would like to explore food issues further.

Course Schedule:
January 14: Making Industrial Food
January 28: What to Eat?
February 11: Food and the Environment
February 25: The Contemporary Food Crisis
March 11: Toward Food Democracy: Local and Alternative Food Systems

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Mystery Food Quiz

Here are the answers to the mystery food quiz:

9 Thank You Brand Creamy French Onion Dip
3 Wish Bone Thousand Island Dressing
10 Heary Cup O'Noodles
47 Weight Watchers Chocolate Mousse
6 Lipton Rice and Sauce (Asparagus with Hollandaise Sauce)
2 Wyler's Bouillon Cubes
45 Isomil Soy Protein Formula with Iron
4 Seven Sease Free Ranch Nonfat Dressing (Fat Free and Cholesterol Free)
7 McCormick Green Pepper Sauce Blend

(From Sally Fallon, Nourishing Traditions, Revised Second Edition, New Trends, 2001)

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