| Have you ever wondered about the origins of what you eat and why you eat it? We all have a tendency to gather around the familial meal table and consume foods without a secondary thought as to their origins, social significance or contextualization within history or contemporary society. Why is it that hot-cross buns have crosses on top, or that the evolution of a wedding cake's shape, form and taste parallels the evolution of the social mores within Western society? Why was the emergence of the canning industry directly related to the development of war? Why is fast food so intimately connected to greater political processes of globalization, corporatization and transnationalism? "There is no love sincerer, than the love of food" ~ George Bernard Shaw This is a community that explores and deconstructs the intricacies of food culture, food knowledge, food history, food myths, food facts and of course food itself. From recipes to trivia to academic theories, we'll attempt to comprehend why food is what it is and how it has come to occupy a central position within the fabric of society | 
