Diet Defines Us: Food, Culture & Our Past with Robyn Cutright PhD — WildFed Podcast #130

In this episode:

Robyn Cutright PhD | Archaeologist & Associate Professor of Anthropology & Latin American Studies at Centre College

Podcast discussion:

  • Introducing Robyn

  • How Robyn sees where we are today with food

  • Diet vs cuisine

  • A culinary framework for how to eat

  • Did past societies experience the food opulence that we do today?

  • The domestication of food

  • Relationship between food and gender/class

  • The role that alcohol has played in cuisine throughout history

  • The cultural taboo of entomophagy

  • Thoughts on the last hunter-gatherers

  • Closing thoughts

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Meet Robyn Cutright

 
 

Robyn Cutright is an archaeologist who studies ancient households and food on the North Coast of Peru. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh and works as an associate professor of anthropology and Latin American studies at Centre College in Kentucky, where she is currently serving as the interim director of the Center for Teaching and Learning. Cutright is the author of The Story of Food in the Human Past: How What We Ate Made Us Who We Are and a co-editor of Ancient Households on the North Coast of Peru.

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