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\"Food has always been an important source of knowledge about culture and society. Art and Appetite takes a fascinating new look at depictions of food in American art, demonstrating that the artists' representations of edibles offer thoughtful reflection on the cultural, political, economic, and social moments in which they were created. Using food as an emblem, artists were able to both celebrate and critique their society, expressing ideas relating to politics, race, class, gender, and commerce. Focusing on the late 18th century through the Pop artists of the 20th century, this lively publication investigates the many meanings and interpretations of eating in America. Richly illustrated, Art and Appetite features still life and trompe l'oeil painting, sculpture, and other works by such celebrated artists as William Merritt Chase, John Singleton Copley, Elizabeth Paxton, Norman Bel Geddes, Stuart Davis, Edward Hopper, Alice Neel, Wayne Thiebaud, Roy Lichtenstein, and many more. Essays by leading experts address topics including the horticultural and botanical underpinnings of still-life paintings, the history of alcohol consumption in the United States, Thanksgiving, and food in the world of Pop art. In addition to the images and essays, this book includes a selection of 18th- and 19th-century recipes for all-American dishes including molasses cake, stewed terrapin, rice blancmange, and roast calf's head. \"-- Provided by publisher.

Our contribution discusses the practice of Panem et Circenses (Alessandra Ivul and Ludovico Pensato), an art collective whose work revolves around food and agriculture. After founding Panem et Circenses in Berlin, Ivul and Pensato opened an artist-run exhibition space devoted to food-based practices in Bologna. Since 2017, they have lived at Ca’ Inua, a farm in Marzabotto, on the Bologna Apennines. Ivul and Pensato see their experimentation with regenerative and sustainable farming as a form of performance art, an embodiment of their engagement with philosophy and theory. Their work participates in discourses—with a range of variations that build on Indigenous sciences/knowledges, posthumanist and new materialist philosophies, and environmental arts and humanities—that recenter symbiosis, relationality, and human/more-than-human entanglements. Our methodological approach relies on critical, art historical, and visual studies tools and is informed by ethnographic observations on site as well as an interview with the artists published here. We begin to address the specificity of Panem et Circenses’ relationship with the lands that they care for and locate their experience in the larger landscape of Art Farming practices. Panem et Circenses translate theoretical frameworks into everyday interactions, hands-on activities, community-building, and long-term planning for the ecology of Ca’ Inua.

Background Diet-related disease is a complex problem, driven by individual, societal and environmental factors. Food policies aim to change food environments and tackle inequalities in diet-related health. The UK implemented a mandatory energy [kcal] labelling scheme for out-of-home food environments in Apr 2022. This study explored young people's views of the policy. Methods A participatory action research approach was used, with creative qualitative research methods [Photovoice], in two economically deprived English regions: one coastal and one urban. Twenty young people [12-17 years old] were recruited via youth groups. They participated in workshops and created photography exhibitions in each region. Thematic codebook analysis was used to analyse workshop audio transcripts, photographs and captions. Results Three themes were identified. In RELEVANCE OF CALORIES TO SUPPORT HEALTHY EATING, young people saw information on energy content was useful, if limited. Many were shocked at the energy content of drinks [e.g., iced coffee]. Yet, they didn't think the policy helped them judge the ‘healthiness’ or nutritional quality of the foods that mattered to them. In NAVIGATING FOOD ENVIRONMENTS, the complexity and constraints of food environments for young people were felt with the domination of big business through advertising, promotions and displacement of independent businesses. These power imbalances were thought to influence their ability to consume diverse and healthy diets. They spoke passionately about CULTURAL AND EMOTIONAL CONNECTIONS TO FOOD, demonstrating young people were knowledgeable consumers who recognised that multiple social factors influenced their out-of-home food choices. Conclusions Young people need more support to navigate increasingly complex and inequitable food environments. Their voices are often neglected in policy development. This study presents the experiences of young people and contributes to wider food policy evaluations. Key messages • Food policies in the UK appear inadequate to help young people navigate increasingly complex digital and in-person food environments. • Labelling foods in the out-of-home sector with their energy content [kcal] is unlikely to have a significant impact on the dietary intake of young people.

Engaging the interest of Western citizens in the complex food connections that shape theirs’ and others’ personal wellbeing around issues such as food security and access is challenging. This article is critical of the food marketplace as the site for informing consumer behaviour and argues instead for arts-based participatory activities to support the performance of ecological citizens in non-commercial spaces. Following the ongoing methodological and conceptual fascination with performance, matter and practice in cultural food studies, we outline what the ecological citizen, formed through food’s agentive potential, does and could do. This is an ecological citizen, defined not in its traditional relation to the state but rather to the world of humans and non-humans whose lives are materially interconnected through nourishment. The article draws on the theories of Berlant, Latour, Bennett and Massumi. Our methodology is a collaborative arts-led research project that explored and juxtaposed diverse food practices with artist Paul Hurley, researchers, community partners, volunteers and participants in Bristol, UK. It centred on a 10-day exhibition where visitors were exposed to a series of interactive explorations with and about food. Our experience leads us to outline two steps for enacting ecological citizenship. The first step is to facilitate sensory experiences that enable the agential qualities of foodstuffs to shape knowledge making. The second is to create a space where people can perform, or relate differently, in unusual manners to food. Through participating in the project and visiting the exhibition, people were invited to respond not only as ‘ethical consumers’ but also as ‘ecological citizens’. This participatory approach to research can contribute to understandings of human-world entanglements.

Background/Objectives: Research on the relationship between nutritional characteristics and their impact on cardiovascular remodeling in children conceived by assisted reproductive technology (ART) is limited. We aimed to explore the influence of postnatal nutrition on vascular wall thickness in children conceived through ART, comparing them with a naturally conceived control group. Methods: A prospective observational cohort of 3-year-old children (n = 83) was analyzed, including 41 conceived ART and 42 spontaneously conceived. The carotid maximum intima–media thickness (max-cIMT), a strong predictor of myocardial infarction, was measured and dietary intake was assessed through 3-day food records. Dietary data were compared between groups, and the relationship between nutritional intake and max-cIMT were explored. In the ART group, the k-means clustering method identified distinct dietary patterns. Results: ART children showed significantly higher max-cIMT values, as well as increased dietary intake of saturated fatty acids (SFA), total proteins, and animal proteins compared to those spontaneously conceived. Three cluster groups were identified based on dietary intake in the ART group; those ART children whose dietary pattern closely resembled the control group exhibited lower max-cIMT values. Conclusions: Our findings suggest that ART children exhibited a distinct dietary pattern characterized by higher consumption of total and animal proteins and SFA, compared to those conceived naturally. Further research is required to unravel the interindividual differences among individuals conceived through ART, enabling the formulation of precise nutritional recommendations for personalized nutrition and preventive medicine.

This paper investigates the narratives involved in the becoming public of an ecological, relational, and culinary culture through artistic mediums. Specifically, the question posed is this: how do food and cooking feature in some selected design and architecture exhibitions? The argument is developed through a series of thematic case studies that aim to affirm the presence in contemporary design, architecture, and exhibition-making of an ecological paradigm. The examples blur the lines of food and art by being proposed as processes of collective authorship happening in atmospheres of conviviality and hospitality. I bring forth the argument that developing exhibitions through the lines of hospitality can improve the quality of public engagement, and amplify a relational model which calls for the collective and entangled nature of all things. Alongside the potential of the arts of sparking a cognitive restructuring and shift in perspective, some risks associated with the mainstream model of society are considered. The final aim is to affirm the importance of relationships to oppose the neoliberal geopolitics of power which foster object-oriented perspectives.

In this study, we focus on the environment at the museum after the appreciation of art. We conducted an experiment, in which participants were instructed to watch short films and then perform one out of three activities (Activity ‐ A: Sitting, B: Walking, C: Talking quietly with the experimenter). According to the latent memory test following each activity, the participants recalled the content in elaborate detail after either sitting calmly (A) or walking (B) rather than after talking (C). This proved that even though the content is the same, the depth of the impression varies according to the activity performed after the appreciation. In this study, the authors argue that the activity right after appreciating exhibitions in a museum can affect not only the state of the viewer but also the viewer's memory of works. In the experiment, after watching the short film art, one of the three different activities was performed and the memory of the art was checked. From the results of this experiment, it was suggested that planning spaces for quiet walks or sit were more desirable than planning a restaurant or a goods shop right next to the exhibition space in museums.

Halfway through Agnès Varda's film The Gleaners and I, a judge in full regalia stands in a field of newly harvested tomatoes and reads an edict from 1554 that authorizes \"the poor, the wretched, and the underprivileged to go to the fields after the harvest, from sunrise to sundown, and glean leftover fruit and vegetables.\" The artists David Allen Burns and Austin Young of Fallen Fruit have joyfully adopted the ancient practice of gleaning and brought it to contemporary urban neighborhoods. They invite you to experience your city as a fruitful place and to radically shift public participation and the function of urban spaces, and to explore the meaning of community through creating and sharing new and abundant resources--like fruit trees. Fallen Fruit began in 2004 when Burns, Young, and Matias Viegener, who left the collaboration in 2013, created a map of their Los Angeles neighborhood showing fruit on the margins of public space that could be harvested. Through their ongoing project Endless Orchard, Fallen Fruit continue to map urban fruit trees, organize community fruit tree plantings, and talk about public spaces as shared resources.

In the catalog for the exhibition Printing the Revolution: The Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphics, 1965 to Now, curator E. Carmen Ramos identifies that the revolutionary moment of the Chicano movement “signified an individual and societal paradigm shift, as citizens, residents, and entire communities demanded equality and justice” (Ramos 2020: 23).1 The artists who participated in the Chicano Movement, or el Movimiento, rallied for broad-term social change for their community by creating “visually arresting works that catalyzed a Chicano public coming into awareness of itself” (24). It was in this moment, 1975, that the Royal Chicano Air Force (RCAF) and La Galería de la Raza (Galería), artist collectives in northern California, created a graphic calendar series titled Calendario de Comida 1976. The calendar celebrated their collective Chicano identity through art and food.

The National Environmental Health Association's (NEHA) 86th Annual Educational Conference (AEC) & Exhibition continued their longstanding tradition of providing innovative content to meet the varying needs of attendees with in-person and virtual options. The theme for the 2023 AEC was, \"Raising the Voice of the Environmental Health Workforce,\" with the goal of coming together as a profession. That is exactly what happened July 31-Aug 3 in vibrant New Orleans LA, and virtually. Over 1,300 environmental health professionals participated in the AEC, with nearly 1,200 gathering in New Orleans and 150 engaging virtually. Attendees gathered to share best practices, innovations, solutions, and research to amplify the voice of their often-unseen profession. Dr. Maureen Lichtveld, dean of the School of Public Health at the University of Pittsburgh, opened up the conference on Monday, July 31, with an impactful presentation on the integral role of environmental health in multiple facets of public health and health systems.