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foodscape en · NOUN

Etymology

From food + -scape.

Meanings

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:
   • 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:

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