foodscape

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noun

A metaphorical landscape of foods and their production methods and cultural associations.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

nounfoodscape (plural foodscapes)

plural foodscapes

  1. A metaphorical landscape of foods and their production methods and cultural associations.

    We understand the foodscape as a dynamic social construction that relates food to places, people, meanings, and material processes.

    2014, Josee Johnston, Shyon Baumann, Foodies: Democracy and Distinction in the Gourmet Foodscape, page 3
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    Ethnic food, to this extent, must be regarded as a foodscape. A notion of foodscape reveals how movements of ethnic food are intertwined with the different movements of ethnic groups, financial capital, and business […]

    2002, Warren James Belasco, Philip Scranton, Food Nations: Selling Taste in Consumer Societies, page 215

    Gilroy is a foodscape because its identity as a place is marketed to and often recalled among a diverse public by its association with a particular food item.

    2010, Pauline Adema, Garlic Capital of the World, page 4

Origin

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