BRD201: Role of Food- Food related Issues- Essay Writing Assignment

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Essay Writing Assignment:

Task: What Role Does Food Play in People’s Lives beyond Nutrition? Annotated Bibliography Anderson, E. N. (2014). Everyone eats: Understanding food and culture. NYU Press. Anderson’s book published in 2014 seeks to explain how food and culture are related. In this book, the universality of food is discussed and how different cultures associate to their food is also explained. The role of food in the cultural setting seeks to explain how different cultures perceive their food and how these perceptions colour their food practices. In a cultural perceptive, Anderson’s book examines the relational aspect of food in terms of how food was used to bring people together in different cultures and the types o foods that were used during festivals and feasts in the past. He also delves into the cultural significance of feasts and the vital role that food plays in these feasts as a bonding tool or as a way of communing with the ancestral spirits. By offering this insight, the role that food across different cultures and how that role has changed as time progresses.