August 6, 1999

Proponents of Food Studies Turn Up the Heat on Their Foes

To the Editor:

There are ...significant moves toward food studies within more traditionally rigorous disciplines, but there is simultaneously a snobbish skepticism from colleagues within those disciplines ("A Place at the Table," July 9).

This arises for two reasons: First, food systems are complex, and therefore not amenable to impressively detailed mathematical description or precise thermodynamic

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