foodway
English edit
Etymology edit
food + way; in the sense of "alimentary canal", by extension from airway.
Noun edit
foodway (plural foodways)
- (anatomy) The alimentary canal.
- (sociology, chiefly in the plural) The food traditions or customs of a group of people, including their culinary and nutritional practices and related social aspects.
- Coordinate term: speechway
References edit
- Lévi-Strauss, Claude (1983), The Raw and the Cooked: Mythologiques - Volume 1, Paperback Reprint Edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
- Foodways, in New Georgia Encyclopedia.
- Foodways of Austin