Eating Is an English Word

“To eat. Comer. Lekker. Tasty. Schmecka. Gustar. Don’t reach for your dictionary to find equivalencies. Instead, read and digest this engaging book to appreciate how different wording points to different worlding around food and eating! Annemarie Mol and her multilingual collaborators challenge us all to confront the analytical limits of English’s hegemony as ‘our’ academic language.” - Heather Paxson, editor of Eating beside Ourselves: Thresholds of Foods and Bodies

“Eating Is an English Word offers a series of rich ethnographic contributions that challenge the implicit understanding of matters embedded in the English world: the body that eats; the enjoyment it brings; the practices and situations involved. At the same time, it illuminates significant assumptions related to linguistic and conceptual habits more broadly.” - Margaret J. Wiener, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

"Eating is an English Word throws the gauntlet down to scholars of food, eating, and taste, to look for other ways and other words to approach our subject. I do hope that we pick it up." - David Sutton, Anthropological Notebooks