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Introduction (2025)
Book Chapter
Colquhoun, A., Graf, K., & West, H. G. (2025). Introduction. In A. Colquhoun, & K. Graf (Eds.), Food Beyond Terroir: Tasting Place and Placing Taste in Global Perspective (pp. 1-26). Berghahn. https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.26597731.5

Food Beyond Terroir: Tasting Place and Placing Taste in Global Perspective (2025)
Book
A. Colquhoun, & K. Graf. (Eds.). (2025). Food Beyond Terroir: Tasting Place and Placing Taste in Global Perspective. Berghahn Books. https://doi.org/10.3167/9781836951872

From winemaking in occupied territories to fishing in polluted seas, home cooking in refugee communities, and vegan cheesemaking, this collection explores the complex ways taste and place intersect with political, ecological, social, and economic iss... Read More about Food Beyond Terroir: Tasting Place and Placing Taste in Global Perspective.

Digital Foodscapes: Past - Present - Future (2025)
Preprint / Working Paper
Allgaier, J., Bartelmeß, T., Decorte, P., Evans, R., Feldman, Z., Fernandez, M. A., Forno, F., Fuentes, C., Graf, K., Grosglik, R., Han, D.-I. D., Huey, S., König, L. M., Leer, J., Lewis, T., Munk, A. K., Onorati, M. G., Parasecoli, F., Partridge, S., …Cardel, M. (2025). Digital Foodscapes: Past - Present - Future. SocArxIV. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/pzmu5_v2

The everyday production, consumption, distribution, communication and management of food and culinary practices are increasingly influenced and mediated by digital technologies, ranging from digital
procurement systems and online shopping, marketin... Read More about Digital Foodscapes: Past - Present - Future.

Food and Families in the Making: Knowledge Reproduction and Political Economy of Cooking in Morocco (2024)
Book
Graf, K. (2024). Food and Families in the Making: Knowledge Reproduction and Political Economy of Cooking in Morocco. Berghahn. https://doi.org/10.3167/9781805394679

Even in the context of rapid material and social change in urban Morocco, women, and especially those from low-income households, continue to invest a lot of work in preparing good food for their families. Through the lens of domestic food preparatio... Read More about Food and Families in the Making: Knowledge Reproduction and Political Economy of Cooking in Morocco.

Cyborg Cooks: Mothers and the Anthropology of Smart Kitchens (2023)
Journal Article
Graf, K. (2023). Cyborg Cooks: Mothers and the Anthropology of Smart Kitchens. Digital Culture and Society, 9(1), 49-70. https://doi.org/10.14361/dcs-2023-0104

Future kitchens are increasingly imagined as smart. Wired food processors offer a choice of recipes and prepare food for busy cooks while smartphones or intelligent fridges promise to shop online autonomously. Whatever the futuristic image, s... Read More about Cyborg Cooks: Mothers and the Anthropology of Smart Kitchens.

Cooking with(out) others? Changing kitchen technologies and family values in Marrakech (2022)
Journal Article
Graf, K. (2024). Cooking with(out) others? Changing kitchen technologies and family values in Marrakech [Cooking without others? Changing kitchen technologies and family values in Marrakech]. The Journal of North African Studies, 29(4), 575-600. https://doi.org/10.1080/13629387.2022.2056448

Domestic cooking is changing the world over. Kitchen technologies and the smartphone transform the way we cook and whom we cook with. Coupled with urbanisation and the shrinking of households, cooking seems to be an increasingly solitary practice. At... Read More about Cooking with(out) others? Changing kitchen technologies and family values in Marrakech.

Taste knowledge: couscous and the cook's six senses (2022)
Journal Article
Graf, K. (2022). Taste knowledge: couscous and the cook's six senses. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 28(2), 577-594. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.13708

In this article, I explore how cooking knowledge is constituted and show that a sense of taste is central to it. Drawing on the thick description of domestic couscous preparation in Marrakech, Morocco, I treat taste both as a multisensory form of kno... Read More about Taste knowledge: couscous and the cook's six senses.

Special issue introduction: from nature to culture? Lévi-Strauss legacy and the study of contemporary foodways (2020)
Journal Article
Graf, K., & Mescoli, E. (2020). Special issue introduction: from nature to culture? Lévi-Strauss legacy and the study of contemporary foodways. Food, Culture and Society, 23(4), 465-471. https://doi.org/10.1080/15528014.2020.1773692

This introduction and special issue explores the legacy of Claude Lévi-Strauss for the study of contemporary foodways. We revisit Lévi-Strauss’ structural writing about food through different angles. To begin with, based on our ethnographic research... Read More about Special issue introduction: from nature to culture? Lévi-Strauss legacy and the study of contemporary foodways.

Re-examining the contested good: proceedings from a postgraduate workshop on good food (2019)
Journal Article
Graf, K., Cohen, A., Simpson Miller, B., & Vaghi, F. (2019). Re-examining the contested good: proceedings from a postgraduate workshop on good food. Gastronomica: The Journal for Food Studies, 19(1), 91-93. https://doi.org/10.1525/gfc.2019.19.1.91

Following the 2017 postgraduate research workshop hosted by the SOAS Food Studies Centre, in collaboration with University of Warwick Food GRP, this article brings together nine research briefs written by various participants. Inspired by the worksho... Read More about Re-examining the contested good: proceedings from a postgraduate workshop on good food.

Beldi Matters: Negotiating Proper Food in Urban Moroccan Food Consumption and Preparation (2016)
Book Chapter
Graf, K. (2016). Beldi Matters: Negotiating Proper Food in Urban Moroccan Food Consumption and Preparation. In F. Bergeaud-Blackler, J. Fischer, & J. Lever (Eds.), Halal Matters: Islam, Politics and Markets in Global Perspective (pp. 72-90). Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Halal-Matters-Islam-Politics-and-Markets-in-Global-Perspective/Bergeaud-Blackler-Fischer-Lever/p/book/9781138812765