English edit

Etymology edit

food +‎ -scape

Noun edit

foodscape (plural foodscapes)

  1. A metaphorical landscape of foods and their production methods and cultural associations.
    • 2002, Warren James Belasco, Philip Scranton, Food Nations: Selling Taste in Consumer Societies, page 215:
      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 []
    • 2010, Pauline Adema, Garlic Capital of the World, page 4:
      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.
    • 2014, Josee Johnston, Shyon Baumann, Foodies: Democracy and Distinction in the Gourmet Foodscape, page 3:
      We understand the foodscape as a dynamic social construction that relates food to places, people, meanings, and material processes.