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		<title>Babel&#8217;s Market</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just found out about this new documentary film that is being made about the Porta Palazzo market in Turin. I can&#8217;t wait to see the whole film. I wonder which will appear first my book or their film. It would be fun to present the two together. Babel&#8217;s Market Trailer from Peter Gerard on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A new job!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are up and moving to Boston next month! In September, I will be starting my new job as Assistant Professor in the Gastronomy Program at Boston University. For Fall 2009 I will be teaching one course: &#8220;Food, Culture &#38; Exchange: The Economic Anthropology of Food.&#8221; I am looking forward to working with the wonderful [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rachelblack.ca/?p=500</link>
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		<title>Standing in line</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning I read an article in the New York Times entitled &#8220;Table for 2? Get Ready to Wait in Line&#8221; and it got me thinking about the social aspects of waiting for food (something this article missed entirely). Sure, I can understand the inconvenience of having to wait to be fed but I can [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rachelblack.ca/?p=489</link>
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		<title>Amaro: A Boozy, Bitter History of Digestivi from the Pharmacy to the Bar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever had a wonderful copious meal and regretted that last bite of panna cotta? A long walk after dinner will help but Italians have come up with an even more civilized cure&#8211;the digestivo. A digestivo is an alcoholic beverage often consumed after a meal in Italy, although many of these drinks make appearances [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rachelblack.ca/?p=478</link>
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		<title>Response to Applied Anthropology Discussion &#8211; Barry Bainton</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago I started a discussion about applied anthropology and the role of theory. Here is a response to my initial post from Barry Bainton: The question, “where is the theory in applied anthropology?, is an old one. It is one I have dealt with for the past 40 years and this is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rachelblack.ca/?p=475</link>
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		<title>Update on the Cultural Encyclopedia of Alcohol</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For all the wonderful contributors and people who have followed this project with interest, I have a few updates on the Cultural Encyclopedia as it heads through the editing process. At the end of February, I submitted the finished manuscript to Greenwood Press. This happened on time (thanks to prompt contributors and quick responses to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rachelblack.ca/?p=464</link>
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		<title>Applied Ethnographic Research &#8211; Where&#8217;s the theory?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Why is academic anthropological theory and sometimes training of so little use to researchers using ethnography as a research technique? How can academics create theory that speaks to applied fields and industry? Recently, I had my first experience doing ethnography for industry. This was an eye-opening experience and it made me think about my training [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rachelblack.ca/?p=459</link>
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		<title>Thinking about Porta Palazzo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[These days I am thinking about Porta Palazzo a lot. I am making the final revisions to my manuscript, which is an ethnographic study of this incredible market in Turin, Italy. From 2001 to 2003 I did fieldwork in the Porta Palazzo market. It is a place I always come back to not only physically [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rachelblack.ca/?p=450</link>
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		<title>SAFN&#8217;s got a new blog: FoodAnthropology</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition (SAFN) has a new blog! FoodAnthropology was launched just a few weeks ago. It is an attempt to create a place for popular dialogue around the topic of nearly anything to do with food and anthropology&#8211;academic, yet fun! Please contact me or David Beriss if you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rachelblack.ca/?p=443</link>
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		<title>The Story of Bottled Water</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve done research on the history of mineral water in Italy but I remain an adamant proponent of bottled water. Last year while working at the University of British Columbia, I got involved with helping a group of students petition the university to have water fountains repaired and put back into service. There cannot be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rachelblack.ca/?p=437</link>
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