Vol. 6, No. 1 reflects upon our past as a journal, our conversations in the present, and our provocations for the future. This issue features essays and a keynote drawn from the Graduate Association for Food Studies' biennial conference, as well as commentary and book reviews...

Rhiannon Scharnhorst examines how the kitchen table becomes a space through which feminisms are practiced and shaped, making it resistant to hegemonic notions of what counts as feminist practice.

Frederico de Oliveira Toscano explores similarities and differences between cultural representations of food abundance and scarcity in Brazil and the United States from the 1930s to the beginning of the 2000s.

Psyche Williams-Forson argues for an intersectional approach. If racism and inequality have persisted across different time periods, why are we forcing food to do the heavy lifting that social inequality contributes to?

Alanna Higgins critically examines the ethics of fieldwork at FARMacy programs, asking: how do we position ourselves as researchers? How do we ethically collect data, and in what ways can researchers navigate social spaces with sensitive data?

Ashanté Reese and Hanna Garth comment that citational practice begins well before the parentheses‚ with whom we choose to read and how we engage that work.

Former Editor-in-Chief Brad Jones reflects on the Graduate Journal of Food Studies to mark its 5th year anniversary.

Former Editor-in-Chief Carla Cevasco reflects on the Graduate Journal of Food Studies to mark its 5th year anniversary.

Former Editor-in-Chief Emily Contois reflects on the Graduate Journal of Food Studies to mark its 5th year anniversary.

In "Burgundy: A Global Anthropology of Place and Taste," Marion Demossier tackles the various socio-cultural, political, and professional practices surrounding the oenological region of Burgundy.

In "Pressure Cooker," sociologists Sarah Bowen, Joslyn Brenton, and Sinikka Elliott set out to challenge dominant narratives about fixing the food system. By analyzing their ethnographic study of nine women, they reveal the complex factors that form a family's eating habits.

Kevin Kosar's "Moonshine: A Global History" explores the plethora of moonshines across time and space in an effort to disavow his readers of stereotypical American associations of moonshine and moonshiners.

Gitanjali G. Shahani’s edited collection “Food and Literature” prioritizes a variety of literary texts (not all Western-focused) to theorize the relationship between language and food, consumption as both reading practice and eating practice.

In "Governing Bodies: American Politics and the Shaping of the Modern Physique," Rachel Louise Moran draws from history and women's studies to consider if the federal government should have a say in what you eat, or how a body should look.

In "Every Nation Has Its Dish: Black Bodies & Black Food in Twentieth-Century America," Jennifer Jensen Wallach thoughtfully links Black bodies and Black food consumption as a means of national inclusion and distancing.

In "Italian Food Activism in Urban Sardinia," Carole Counihan examines the activities of numerous groups across the Mediterranean island, with particular focus on taste as a political and educational tool.