Food Beyond Terroir - Tasting Place and Placing Taste in Global Perspective

From winemaking in occupied territories to fishing in polluted seas, home cooking in refugee communities, and vegan cheese-making, this collection explores the complex ways taste and place intersect with political, ecological, social, and economic issues. Through diverse ethnographic case studies, leading food scholars examine the meaning and making of place and taste. In doing so, the book challenges unsettling terroir-inspired notions of a fixed taste of place and pushes the boundaries of what we think we know about their connections.

About the author

Anna Colquhoun is a social anthropologist based at the SOAS Food Studies Centre. Her research interests include culinary tourism and the cultural economy, hospitality and cooking, and localized and post-socialist food systems.

Katharina Graf is a social anthropologist based at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany She has recently published Food and Families in the Making: Knowledge Reproduction and Political Economy of Cooking in Morocco (Berghahn, 2024).

Product details

• Authors: Anna Graf Colquhoun
• Assisted by: Anna Colquhoun (Editor), Colquhoun Anna (Editor), Katharina Graf (Editor)
• Publisher: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.09.2025
• EAN: 9781836951872
• ISBN: 978-1-83695-187-2
• No. of pages: 378
• Series: Food, Nutrition, and Culture
• Subjects: Guides; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social groups, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Agriculture & Food, Food & society, Social and cultural anthropology, Cultural studies: food and society, Social groups, communities and identities