Author: CFS Admin

While food is at the core of what it means to be human because we need it to sustain ourselves, it is not just the case that ‘we are what we eat’ because our collective lives and cultures are structured around and relate to food in multifaceted ways that prompt deeper questions.

Introducing a special issue of Matatu titled “South African Food Studies,” this essay argues for the importance of food as a lens for understanding contemporary culture and society.