(Announcement Calenda 1152062)
Apart from biological facts, food and culture intersect in diverse representations, both individual and collective. Necessity for the average person, pleasure and enjoyment for the most discerning, dependence on an enslaved body for mystics, community ritual for traditional societies, advertising sign for the dissemination of an increasingly globalized lifestyle, lifestyle for nature conservationists, cultural heritage for societies, and so on. Each has its own discourse: alarmist in the case of shortages and scarcity, ceremonial in the case of celebrations and enjoyment, identity-based when it comes to making people aware, austere and utilitarian when it comes to science, vital when it comes to food safety... These and many other orientations are the paths mapped out in this issue of the magazine for a global reflection on the relationship between food and culture.