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foodway

foodway

1 7.5
Customs about how a community cooks, eats, and shares food
  • noun
  • /ˈfuːdweɪ/
  • Specialized
translation icon : cultura alimentaria
  • Clearly, with respect to foodways, the Great Plains is not an isolated area.
  • Southern foodways
  • Traditional foodways
  • Ethnic foodways

Examples

  • As Amy Smoyer writes: "Women used prison foodways to create a sense of autonomy, identity, community, and normalcy" (2015:16).

    Academic text (2017)
  • Anthropologists have frequently noted the importance of foodways in demarcating ethnic and other group identities.

    Academic text (1999)
  • In contrast, Native foodways are based on an intimate and spiritual connection to the land, the plants, and the animals.

    Academic text (2004)
  • Because eating is such a basic condition of existence, people take their foodways for granted and rarely subject them to conscious examination.

    Academic text (1992)
  • Because of the social character of dining, foodways studies often stress social and behavioral aspects of everyday and festive life.

    Academic text (1993)
  • The Karaites rejected dietary tradition as a group, and the alternative foodways they developed served to define and bind their communities.

    Academic text (1999)
  • The preparation and consumption of food, particularly using traditional Mexican foodways, signifies not only belonging but a burgeoning sense of power.

    Academic text (2016)
  • A few factors in this dietary pattern emerged as significant indicators of the persistence of Southern foodways in Jerome's study.

    Academic text (1999)
  • Migrants' symbolic identification with Southern foodways was reinforced as communal meals continued at family dinners, holidays, and community gatherings.

    Academic text (1999)
  • Many communities celebrate their unique traditions and foodways during cultural festivals throughout the year.

Synonyms

food culture
vsfoodway
1 3.5

The ways people make, share, and eat food in a place

emphasizes traditional beliefs and customs about meals within a local community

How Traditional

food culture
1 3.5
foodway
  • Specialized
1 7.5
habit
630 1.0

Surface Forms

foodway singular
foodways plural

Morphology

foodway = food + way (transparent) = food + way

The meaning is a direct combination of 'food' + 'way' (way = manner/practice), so the sense 'customs and practices about food' is derivable from the bases.

Etymology

The word foodway is made of food and way, where 'way' means 'habit' or 'custom', as in 'a way of life'. So foodway means the traditional habits and beliefs about food in a group.