Writer

Greg de St. Maurice

Assistant professor at Keiō University in the Faculty of Business and Commerce. Vice president of the Association for the Study of Food and Society. Previously a visiting associate professor at Osaka City University and a postdoctoral fellow at Ryūkoku University’s Center for Research on Food Palatability and the University of Toronto’s Culinaria Research Centre. He received his PhD in cultural anthropology from the University of Pittsburgh in 2015. He has published articles and book chapters about globalization, taste, “place” and place brands, culinary heritage and local foodways, and Japan. His latest research focuses on the dynamism of local foodways and agricultural systems in the context of globalization, with projects addressing the use of science by contemporary Japanese chefs, and changes in Japanese domestic and regional foodways since 1975.

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last updated at : Oct 8, 2019