This article outlines a food security synthesis: that food insecurity traces to poverty, that poverty must be addressed by economic development, and that economic development flows from application of the standard model which is now mainstream economics. Food insecure countries do not follow the standard model; their policies for agriculture and other sectors deter development. Why don’t they f...

Fast food culture is an emerging trend among the younger generation. The ready availability, taste, low cost, marketing strategies and peer pressure make them popular with children and adolescents. Fast food restaurants are primed to maximize the speed, efficiency and conformity. The menu is kept limited and standardized essentially to minimize the waiting time so that the customers eat quickly...

The "Guiding Opinions on Promoting the Reform and Development of Museums" other documents issued in 2021 clearly propose to stimulate innovative vitality museums, implement "museum+" strategy, accelerate digitization collections, optimize communication services, pointing out direction for activation utilization museum cultural relics. In order solve problems traditional museums being detached f...

This article applies Campbell's (2005) theory of craft consumption to contemporary food culture. It argues that, besides cooking and the preparation of food, certain modes of domestic food growing can also be regarded as the craft consumption of food. At its core it tries to identify the conditions and possible motives for both modes of the craft consumption of food that can shed light on socia...

Diet has a strong relationship with food culture and changes in it are likely to be involved in the pathogenesis of newly emergent degenerative diseases. To obtain in-depth opinions about the food culture of Minangkabau people, focus group discussions were conducted in a Minangkabau region, represented by four villages in West Sumatra, Indonesia, from January to March 1999. The members of the d...