foodway

English

Etymology

From food +‎ way; in the sense of "alimentary canal", by extension from airway.

Noun

foodway (plural foodways)

1. (anatomy) The alimentary canal.
2. (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

• 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