Culinary Anthropologist

20/03/2026

After many years ... a newsletter!! Hitting inboxes now, and online here too... Anna x

It’s been a LONG time since I have written this newsletter! Apologies for the silence. As you may recall, I used to run cooking classes and a supperclub in London (and I have SO many fond memories of those days!) Things have changed a lot since then, so here is a brief news update:

16/01/2026

Sorry for long silence on this page, but I should announce that I have published a new book!!

Food Beyond Terroir: Tasting Place and Placing Taste in Global Perspective. Edited by Anna Colquhoun and Katharina Graf. Published by Berghahn, 2025.

It's Open Access so you can download it here:
https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/ColquhounFood

From winemaking in occupied territories to fishing in polluted seas, home cooking in refugee communities, and vegan cheesemaking, 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 terroir-inspired notions of a fixed taste of place and pushes the boundaries of what we think we know about taste-place relations.

Independent Publishing since 1994

04/07/2023

As some may know, Anna is a food anthropologist affiliated to the SOAS Food Studies Centre. For all those interested in food's fascinating roles in human life and relevance to important global issues, NOW is the time to apply for the Anthropology of Food Masters course at SOAS! Shout if you have questions, and if you've done the MA, please comment here!

https://www.soas.ac.uk/study/find-course/ma-anthropology-food

18/04/2023

Post Doc and Project Manager positions available at the SOAS Food Studies Centre!

Job vacancy! SOAS Food Studies is hiring a postdoc to lead UK case study in our new project on 'Digitalising food assistance: Political economy, governance and food security effects across the Global North-South divide'. Deadline 2 May. Details here: https://vacancies.soas.ac.uk/job/392042

06/01/2023

It's the time of year when I recruit for staff and interns to join us at our culinary guesthouse in Croatia. Please have a look, and please share. Thank you!