food and drink Archives - Allegra Lab https://allegralaboratory.net/tag/food-and-drink/ Anthropology for Radical Optimism Wed, 27 May 2026 12:58:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://allegralaboratory.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/cropped-Icon-Allegra-Lab-Fixed-32x32.png food and drink Archives - Allegra Lab https://allegralaboratory.net/tag/food-and-drink/ 32 32 War and its absurdities https://allegralaboratory.net/why-war-is-absurd/ https://allegralaboratory.net/why-war-is-absurd/#respond Fri, 19 Apr 2024 08:00:28 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=41537 When Nadja was evacuated from the bomb shelter in eastern Ukraine, she took her cheese with her. She took the […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/why-war-is-absurd/feed/ 0 Global health meets sugar capitalism https://allegralaboratory.net/global-health-meets-sugar-capitalism/ https://allegralaboratory.net/global-health-meets-sugar-capitalism/#respond Mon, 12 Sep 2022 06:50:16 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=39290 Cal Biruk explores how technologies of audit and claims to transparency common to both agri-capitalist and global health infrastructures in […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/global-health-meets-sugar-capitalism/feed/ 0 Trust the organic?! https://allegralaboratory.net/trust-the-organic/ https://allegralaboratory.net/trust-the-organic/#respond Mon, 12 Sep 2022 06:45:52 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=39278 This short essay addresses how trust mechanisms are articulated in one of Geneva’s local organic stores, considering the existence of […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/trust-the-organic/feed/ 0 “Is it really organic?” https://allegralaboratory.net/is-it-really-organic/ https://allegralaboratory.net/is-it-really-organic/#respond Mon, 12 Sep 2022 06:40:08 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=39298 Spurred by a question I have been commonly asked, yet one that I’ve long neglected as ethnographically revealing in itself, […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/is-it-really-organic/feed/ 0 Trust the food chain, trust the blockchain https://allegralaboratory.net/trust-the-food-chain-trust-the-blockchain/ https://allegralaboratory.net/trust-the-food-chain-trust-the-blockchain/#respond Mon, 12 Sep 2022 06:20:19 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=39404 Using blockchain as a thread, IBM Food Trust tries to stitch the wounds in the global, decentralised food supply chain. […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/trust-the-food-chain-trust-the-blockchain/feed/ 0 Tasting Qualities https://allegralaboratory.net/book-symposium-tasting-qualities-3/ https://allegralaboratory.net/book-symposium-tasting-qualities-3/#comments Fri, 23 Oct 2020 09:00:26 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=34693 How does one reproduce the taste, smell and appearance of any craft based/ industrially produced food commodity? Tea is one […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/book-symposium-tasting-qualities-3/feed/ 1 Tasting Qualities https://allegralaboratory.net/booksymposium-tasting-qualities/ https://allegralaboratory.net/booksymposium-tasting-qualities/#comments Fri, 23 Oct 2020 09:00:24 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=34542 Sarah Besky’s ethnographically and historically rich study of the Indian tea industry begins with a deceptively simple question: what makes […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/booksymposium-tasting-qualities/feed/ 2 Tasting Qualities https://allegralaboratory.net/booksymposium-tasting-qualities-2/ https://allegralaboratory.net/booksymposium-tasting-qualities-2/#respond Fri, 23 Oct 2020 09:00:21 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=34531 As I write this, in the uncertain and tumultuous times of early June 2020, there is a storm brewing in […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/booksymposium-tasting-qualities-2/feed/ 0 Meat Planet https://allegralaboratory.net/review-meat-planet/ https://allegralaboratory.net/review-meat-planet/#respond Sat, 18 Jul 2020 06:30:08 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=34083 If the proponents of cultured meat are to be believed we might be soon headed towards a future in which […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/review-meat-planet/feed/ 0 If Meat Could Tell Stories: A Tale of Assam during Coronavirus https://allegralaboratory.net/if-meat-could-tell-stories-a-tale-of-assam-during-coronavirus/ https://allegralaboratory.net/if-meat-could-tell-stories-a-tale-of-assam-during-coronavirus/#comments Mon, 11 May 2020 16:00:05 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=33491 I can smell it, someone is cooking chicken, I screamed and ran to my sister. I think it is the […]

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