What methods and theoretical approaches have anthropologists developed to look at food and culture?

Question

What methods and theoretical approaches have anthropologists developed to look at food and culture?

Answer 1

I suggest you look up the term 'cultural ecology'.

Answer 2

Mary Douglas and Grant McCracken, two cultural theorists, have done some interesting work on food, ritual and the meaning of goods from a cultural anthropology perspective.  

Their key books are Douglas's "World of Goods," and McCracken's "Culture and Consumption."