food, n.Definitions

Food is a lens for culture.

Food is a great literary theme, connected to eternity, sex, lust, the whole of life.

Food is a 'total social fact' in that it sets in motion the totality of society and its institutions.

Food is a liminal substance... it stands as a bridging substance between nature and culture, the human and the natural, the outside and the inside.

Food is a kind of language whose attributes are 'good to think' because they unconsciously express fundamental themes in the human psyche.

Food is a form of social communication that speaks of a group's identity through different degrees of hierarchy, inclusion and exclusion, boundaries and transactions across boundaries.

Food is a kind of language whose attributes are 'good to think' because they unconsciously express fundamental themes in the human psyche through a small number of universal binary contrasts, namely, raw/rotten, raw/cooked, cooked/rotten.

Food is a language that reflects the structure, and organisation of a society. It represents the society to itself and to others.