A Conversation with the “Off the Menu” Research Group

On Wednesday 15 April, FAHNN welcomes the “Off the Menu” research group to discuss their fascinating project. Below you find their abstract.

Eating has always been an ecological act. Humans consume their environments, the earth and its waters, transforming landscapes and stewarding flora and fauna to satisfy their many appetites. Yet many environmental histories end at the market or on the dock, divorcing the production of food from its consumption. In response, the “Off the Menu: Appetites, Culture, and Environment” Research Group, based at the University of Augsburg and funded by the Elite Network of Bavaria, brings eating and ecology together in its study of how plates, tongues, and recipes shape the world. In Utrecht, we—Dr. L. Sasha Gora, Philine Schiller, and Penelope Volinia—are delighted to introduce the project at large in tandem with our individual case studies on codfish, connections, and collapse, on oysters and culinary extinction and endangerment, and on sea urchins and constructions of “invasiveness” to the Food and Agricultural History Network of the Netherlands.

For the website of their project see: https://www.offthemenu.net/

Please register by sending an email to: a.striekwold@uu.nl