Karen R Flórez, Alyshia Gálvez, María Hernández, Ivonne Quiroz, Tsehay F Gebreyes, Kathryn P Derose
{"title":"Nutrition security under constraint: food shopping, cooking, and structural barriers among Mexican immigrants in the Bronx, NYC.","authors":"Karen R Flórez, Alyshia Gálvez, María Hernández, Ivonne Quiroz, Tsehay F Gebreyes, Kathryn P Derose","doi":"10.1080/15528014.2025.2606453","DOIUrl":"10.1080/15528014.2025.2606453","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Questions remain regarding how Mexican immigrants achieve nutrition security in the United States, particularly under poverty and in the wake of COVID-19. We employed creative qualitative methods (food maps, ethnographic interviews, photo and shopping receipt elicitation) during one food shopping and cooking event with 12 Spanish-dominant Mexican immigrants in the Bronx, New York. Using reflexive thematic analysis, we found that participants accessed food through a mosaic of venues - supermarkets, ethnic tiendas, live poultry and meat markets, and big-box stores. Bodegas were also used, but largely avoided for their higher prices. Nutrition security varied widely, shaped by gendered household responsibilities, children's influence, time, and transportation resources. Only three participants received SNAP benefits, and two accessed food pantries, underscoring how systematic barriers and immigration-related fears limited formal support. Despite constraints, participants consistently produced nutrient-rich, culturally resonant meals, drawing on traditional Latin American foodways and improvisational strategies to adapt to available ingredients. Findings demonstrate that nutrition security for immigrant households is contingent and fragile, sustained through disproportionate investments of time and effort. Policy and practice implications include expanding equitable access to food assistance, reducing the hidden time tax of dispersed shopping, and delivering culturally sensitive nutrition education that recognizes immigrant cooking expertise.</p>","PeriodicalId":46299,"journal":{"name":"Food Culture & Society","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13007816/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147515811","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Food Culture & SocietyPub Date : 2025-03-15Epub Date: 2025-01-09DOI: 10.1080/15528014.2024.2447663
Maya Hey, Eleni Michael
{"title":"\"A Whole New World of Possibilities\": Koji Uses and Ambiguities on the Global Marketplace.","authors":"Maya Hey, Eleni Michael","doi":"10.1080/15528014.2024.2447663","DOIUrl":"10.1080/15528014.2024.2447663","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article analyzes the ambiguity of the term \"koji\" - as it simultaneously describes a mold spore, a set of enzymes, and a fermented ingredient - across products that make, use, and promote koji in an increasingly globalized marketplace. We focus on three case studies - a koji-based chocolate, a lees-based condiment with koji in its name, and a hot sauce that is doubly fermented with koji - using discourse analysis supplemented by interviews. As practitioners and scholars who work with koji, we are keen to disentangle how koji is used literally and conceptually across new contexts because slippages between koji-the-spore, koji-the-enzymes, and koji-the-ingredients enable an ambiguity that allows the gourmandization of koji to thrive in capitalism. With attention to koji's material-discursive properties, this paper analyzes the ambiguity of koji across different places and languages. Our findings point to themes of selective storytelling, social distinction, and human-microbe labor relations, which feed into each other.</p>","PeriodicalId":46299,"journal":{"name":"Food Culture & Society","volume":"28 2","pages":"365-386"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7618850/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147436477","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gastroimaginaries: a framework for conceptualizing narratives of food and place in the American South","authors":"Catarina Passidomo","doi":"10.1080/15528014.2024.2381304","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15528014.2024.2381304","url":null,"abstract":"This article develops the concept of gastroimaginaries – narratives that use food as a rhetorical device to define and encapsulate what are believed to be the essential characteristics of a people,...","PeriodicalId":46299,"journal":{"name":"Food Culture & Society","volume":"62 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141776363","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Harnessing food system equity from the ground up: shifting co-governance practices in the funding of food security responses during the pandemic crisis in Toronto, Canada","authors":"Jenelle Regnier-Davies, Sara Edge","doi":"10.1080/15528014.2024.2383014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15528014.2024.2383014","url":null,"abstract":"The COVID-19 pandemic was a disrupting force that magnified social inequities and service gaps in underserved urban communities. It was also a “window of opportunity” for the Black Lives Matter mov...","PeriodicalId":46299,"journal":{"name":"Food Culture & Society","volume":"34 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141776362","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pigs, planners, and potato peels: the Soviet Scheme to feed pigs with urban food waste as a waste regime under Stalin, Khrushchev, and Brezhnev","authors":"Olav S. F. Hofland","doi":"10.1080/15528014.2024.2370122","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15528014.2024.2370122","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, I study why and how Soviet planners organized a scheme to collect food waste from Soviet residential buildings and food service establishments in Moscow and other cities and utiliz...","PeriodicalId":46299,"journal":{"name":"Food Culture & Society","volume":"125 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141588599","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The cultural politics of food, taste, and identity: a global perspective","authors":"Lucy M. Long","doi":"10.1080/15528014.2024.2368321","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15528014.2024.2368321","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Food, Culture & Society: An International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research (Ahead of Print, 2024)","PeriodicalId":46299,"journal":{"name":"Food Culture & Society","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141510014","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exploring veganism in Australia, France, Spain, and Portugal: a netnographic study using the transtheoretical model","authors":"Gelareh Salehi, Aletha Ward, Angela Dillon-Murray, Fatima Canseco-Lopez, Jeffrey Soar","doi":"10.1080/15528014.2024.2351661","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15528014.2024.2351661","url":null,"abstract":"The rising popularity of veganism and vegetarianism has attracted significant market attention, yet limited understanding exists regarding consumer perceptions and adoption of these ethical and sus...","PeriodicalId":46299,"journal":{"name":"Food Culture & Society","volume":"44 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141509872","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gaztronomy: cuisine and modernity in 1930s Lisbon","authors":"Sandra Fernandes Morais","doi":"10.1080/15528014.2024.2366054","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15528014.2024.2366054","url":null,"abstract":"The progressive electrification of kitchens that still place gas cookers center stage raises important questions about the relationship between energy, technology, and culinary practices that empha...","PeriodicalId":46299,"journal":{"name":"Food Culture & Society","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141510015","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Digital food TV: the cultural place of food in a digital era","authors":"Emily J.H. Contois","doi":"10.1080/15528014.2024.2368320","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15528014.2024.2368320","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Food, Culture & Society: An International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research (Ahead of Print, 2024)","PeriodicalId":46299,"journal":{"name":"Food Culture & Society","volume":"197 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141510013","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"«Food and I» – experimenting with citizen science by using oral history in food studies","authors":"Cathrine Hasselberg, Virginie Amilien","doi":"10.1080/15528014.2024.2352229","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15528014.2024.2352229","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this paper is to throw light on the use of oral history as a methodological approach in food studies. Oral history is a field of study and a method(odology) in historiographic research t...","PeriodicalId":46299,"journal":{"name":"Food Culture & Society","volume":"31 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141551911","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}