This study fills a critical gap in research on the immediate postwar history of Japanese American community culture in Los Angeles and South Bay. The purpose of this thesis is to contribute research and literature of the immediate postwar period between the late 1940s resettlement period and the 1960s. During the early to mid-1940s, Americans witnessed World War II and the unlawful incarceration of over 120,000 Japanese Americans. In the 1960s, the Sansei (third generation) started to reshape the character and cultural expressions of Japanese American communities, including their development of the Yellow Power Movement in the context of the Black and Brown Power Movements in California. The period between these bookends, however, requires further research and academic study, and it is to the literature of the immediate postwar period that this thesis contributes. Furthermore, this thesis contributes to the nearly absent literature of Japanese American community redevelopment in the transboundary Los Angeles/South Bay area. It is in this area that we find the largest and fastest growing postwar Japanese American population in the country. This community built lasting networks and relationships through the revival of cultural celebrations like Obon and Nisei Week, sport and recreation – namely baseball and bowling, and ethnic resources in the form of food and ethnic markets. These relationships laid the foundations for later social activism and the redefining of the Japanese American community. Far from a period of silence or inactivity, Japanese Americans actively shaped and reshaped their communities in ways that refused to allow the wartime incarceration experience, so fresh in their minds, to define them.

Many college students across the nation are going hungry and struggling with food insecurity, as their access to food is becoming more challenging to attain. The purpose of this study is to explore the experiences of college students and components that lead them to becoming food insecure. Studies indicate that food insecurity is a critical issue in a college students’ life, but there is not an established approach to adequately help the students address this issue. The data will be collected through self-administered surveys and participant ratings will be reviewed for any common themes and correlations. Results from this study will provide significant material to assist social workers in addressing food insecurity with a systematic approach and influence further research. This study will also present findings to universities to secure supplementary resources and services to prevent food insecurity on campus.

This thesis explores the origin of one of the most engrossing concerns of the post-colonial Indian state, that is, its extensive, intricate, and expensive feeding arrangements for the civilians. It tracks the colonial origin of the post-colonial welfare state, of which state-management of food is one of the most publicized manifestations. This thesis examines the intervention of the late colonial British state in food procurement and distribution in India during the Second World War, and various forms of such intervention, such as the introduction of food rationing and food austerity laws. It argues that the war necessitated actions on the part of the colonial state to secure food supplies to a vastly expanded British Indian Army, to the foreign Allied troops stationed in India, and to the workers employed in war-industries. The thesis brings forth the constitutional and political predicaments that deprived the colonial central government's food administration of success. It further reveals how the bitter bargaining about food imports into India between the Government of India and the War Cabinet in Britain hampered the state efforts to tackle the food crisis. By discussing the religious and cultural codes vis-à-vis food consumption that influenced government food policies, this thesis has situated food in the historiography of consumption in colonial India. In addition to adopting a political approach to study food, it has also applied sociological treatment, particularly while dealing with how the wartime scarcity, and consequent austerity laws, forced people to accept novel consumption cultures. It also contributes to the historiography of 'everyday state'. Through its wartime intervention in everyday food affairs, the colonial state that had been distant and abstract in the perception of most common households, suddenly became a reality to be dealt with in everyday life within the domestic site. Thus, the macro state penetrated micro levels of existence. The colonial state now even developed elaborate food surveillance to gather intelligence about violation of food laws. This thesis unravels the responses of some of the political and religious organizations to state intervention in quotidian food consumption. Following in this vein, through a study of the political use of famine-relief in wartime Bengal, it introduces a new site to the study of communal politics in India, namely, propagation of Hindu communal politics through distribution of food by the Hindu Mahasabha party. Further, it demonstrates how the Muslim League government's failure to prevent the Great Bengal Famine of 1943-44 was politically used by the Mahasabha to oppose the League's emerging demand for the creation of Pakistan.

La transition protéique correspond au processus de substitution entre protéines impliqué dans le cycle de la transition nutritionnelle, résultant de la transformation des normes et valeurs attachées aux aliments qui les fournissent. En Inde, la part relative des protéines ne s’inverse pas au profit des protéines animales dont l’augmentation se fait principalement par des aliments non carnés. Grâce à une enquête qualitative à Delhi et quantitative à Vadodara, la thèse démêle les déterminants aux décisions alimentaires concernant un portefeuille d’aliments protéiques d’origine animale, et leurs formes d’intégration dans les catégories alimentaires. Le modèle examine en effet les processus socioculturels de gestion de la mort alimentaire, régulateurs de la frontière végétarien/non-végétarien, ainsi que les frontières et contenus de ces catégories, perméables aux effets de la modernisation. Si les consommations apparaissent surdéterminées par des variables ethniques et sociales, les résultats invitent à considérer les dynamiques de différenciation sociale internes à ces groupes et opérées par ces aliments, ainsi que les contextes interactionnels agissant sur leur prévalence. A l’échelle micro-individuelle, les liens à l’alimentation et à ces aliments agencent des formes de régimes, évolutives dans un parcours alimentaire et biographique, établissant la relation entre l’individu, son alimentation, et le collectif. La thèse démontre l’autonomie culturelle vis à vis de contraintes biologiques et discute la convergence alimentaire par la place singulière des protéines animales dans les régimes alimentaires. / The protein transition corresponds to the process of substitution between proteins involved in the cycle of nutrition transition. In India the relative share of protein is not reversed in favor of animal protein whose increase is primarily through non-meat foods. Through a qualitative survey in Delhi and a quantitative one in Vadodara, the thesis unravels the determinants of food decisions regarding a portfolio of animal-based protein foods, and its forms of integration in the food categories. The model looks at the sociocultural process of the killing for food, which regulate the vegetarian/non-vegetarian boundary, as well as the boundaries and content of these categories, permeable to modernity. If the overall consumption appears overdetermined by ethnic and social variables, the results invite to consider the dynamics of social differentiation internal to these groups and produced by foods items, as well as interactional contexts acting on their prevalence. At the micro-individual level, ties to food and ties to animal foods shape forms of diets in a biographical journey, establishing the relationship between the individual, his food, and the collective. The thesis demonstrates the cultural autonomy with respect to biological constraints and discusses food convergence by the singular arrangement of animal proteins in the diets.

CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION The purpose of this study is to explore the practice, significance, and development over time of ‘traditional’ home cooking for the descendants of Lebanese immigrants in Argentina and greater Latin America. This is an exploratory paper suggestive of themes that could be examined more deeply through more localized research (Rowe 2012). Nonetheless, this study supports a number of conclusions about this dynamic diasporic group and its relationship to traditional food practices. Narratives and responses about meaning in memory, kinship, and tradition tell an important story about motivations for engaging in food and cooking practices among the descendants of the Lebanese diaspora in Latin America. My study shows that my participants and respondents engage in food and cooking practice as a largely unselfconscious reproduction of cultural identity motivated primarily by a desire to connect with their kin, to evoke memories of their past, and to preserve the gastronomic heritage taught to them—whether directly or indirectly—by their immigrant ancestors. [TRUNCATED]

The practice of gleaning began as a way for the poor to provide sustenance for themselves and their families. Changes in societal ideas about private property as well as a shift toward a neoliberal style of governance have caused gleaning to become what it is today: a practice primarily undertaken by charitable organizations, nonprofits, and church groups who then donate their bounty to local food banks, providing fresh produce to the food insecure. In modern society, gleaning is often held up as a single solution to the problems of food insecurity, poor nutrition, and food waste. This thesis complicates that discourse by analyzing the websites of five different San Francisco Bay Area gleaning groups to investigate how they present themselves as fitting into the larger conversation surrounding food charity, health, and food waste. This thesis uses qualitative and quantitative textual analysis to show how the language used on each organization’s website illustrates the organization’s relationship with those three values. Each organization presents itself as fitting into contemporary food recovery discourse in a different way: one focuses primarily on community building; one is looking to expand its model as far as possible; one seeks to be a solution to poor nutrition, food insecurity, and food waste in its community; one provides myriad resources to anyone looking; and one actively embraces the food insecure. The differences among these organizations show the one-dimensionality of the current discourse surrounding gleaning as a single solution to food insecurity, poor nutrition, and food waste. While gleaning can, and does, have value, its focus on the individual’s role in solving food insecurity, poor nutrition, and food waste, as well as its inability to provide long-term solutions, complicates its role in contemporary food recovery.

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This study analyzes oral recipe sharing practices as they emerge in Southern cooking. Researcher and participants were immersed in cooking recipes together in a qualitative research method that combined interactive interviewing with sensory ethnography. Findings revealed a category of oral recipe sharing practices that is missing from the literature: cooking lessons. This study identified cooking lessons as a distinct recipe sharing practice and worked to further operationalize and concretize such practices in hopes of spurring further research.

<p>Drag Cuisines is an interdisciplinary study of the cultural, social, and historical interconnectedness of veganism, queerness, and animality. To interrogate these links requires mixed methods such as the collection of oral histories with self-identified queer vegans, analysis of animal themes in queer film and literature, social media analysis, and analysis of food cultures and restaurant rhetorics. Following work by prominent American Studies scholars, this project posits that the practice of veganism embodies queer performativity in how queerness and animality are ontologically linked.</p>

During the decade, 1930-1940, most of the government efforts were directed to the task of seeing that no one should starve. Through welfare programs it was possible to insure low income groups against starvation; "but through the depression years and the poet-depression months, it was recognized that just the guarantee against starvation was not enough. Our nutritional goal should be commensurate with natural resources of our country and with our ability to produce, have the land, the equipment and the man power necessary to furnish good food for our whole nation. Knowing this and recognizing from surveys that a large percentage of our nation was poorly fed, our government put more emphasis upon the study of the problem of nutrition and how it affects our nation.