Open AccessBook Review: The SAGE Encyclopedia of Food Issues
Author(s) -
Rachel Wexelbaum
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
reference and user services quarterly/reference and user services quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.443
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 2163-5242
pISSN - 1094-9054
DOI - 10.5860/rusq.55n4.327a
Subject(s) - encyclopedia , realm , food studies , variety (cybernetics) , library science , sociology , engineering ethics , social science , media studies , political science , engineering , anthropology , law , computer science , artificial intelligence
A wide variety of academic disciplines have recognized “food studies” as a legitimate area of study. Sociologists, historians, psychologists, nutritionists, media studies scholars, scientists, and culinarians—to name a few—have all published authoritative works in the realm of food studies. Because food studies encompasses such a broad range of topics, and the language of food studies varies from discipline to discipline, publication of a print food studies encyclopedia is an ambitious undertaking. Dr. Ken Albala, world-renowned food studies scholar, has taken up this challenge.