How to Use foodways in a Sentence

foodways

plural noun
  • This book is a big change from your Nordic foodways work.
    Rick Nelson, Star Tribune, 9 Oct. 2020
  • There's Cajun and Appalachian fare, and the foodways of the coastal South, and the Southwest, just to name a few.
    Jennifer Aldrich, Country Living, 7 Nov. 2022
  • The mixing of lard and sugar into masa emerged from those same Black foodways.
    Michael Snyder, Travel + Leisure, 28 Oct. 2021
  • Black foodways at large has been an inspiration to hosts Soleil Ho and Justin Phillips.
    Justin Phillips, SFChronicle.com, 10 Aug. 2020
  • The difference lies in the piercing axiom that drives the series: The roots of our national foodways stem from Black hands and minds.
    Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2021
  • Why is a guy from Winona immersing himself in the rich heritage of Southern foodways?
    Sharyn Jackson, Star Tribune, 15 Jan. 2021
  • They won’t all be purchased by outsiders naive to the traditions of Chicago’s foodways.
    Tim Carman, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2022
  • Of course, this is what Dr. Harris, who appears in the first episode, has been saying in her three-decade career and more than a dozen books as a scholar of African American foodways.
    Osayi Endolyn, New York Times, 17 May 2021
  • My grandma taught me traditional Navajo foodways, showing me how to use all parts of the animal and treat plants as medicine.
    Brian Yazzie, Bon Appétit, 22 Apr. 2021
  • Kong Dial and her cafe are part of a statewide movement to revive Indigenous foodways throughout Meghalaya.
    Zinara Rathnayake, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Aug. 2022
  • Make friends with your local farmers and build better, more sustainable foodways.
    Kiki Louya, Bon Appétit, 26 Feb. 2021
  • For the past however many centuries, the techniques and tastes of Indigenous North American foodways have been left out of mainstream media.
    Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2021
  • Many adoptees learn about Korean foodways through libraries, friends and social media.
    New York Times, 31 July 2022
  • Despite being such a bedrock of cooking, soul food—and Black foodways in general—is not regularly taught about in culinary schools.
    Priya Krishna, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Mar. 2021
  • Tipton-Martin has been studying and writing about African American foodways for decades.
    Hugh Garvey, Sunset Magazine, 19 June 2020
  • By making a conscious effort to purchase from the surrounding region, the team is able to provide a unique look into the foodways and destination that is Upstate New York.
    Roger Sands, Forbes, 11 July 2022
  • That, paired with all my globetrotting, studying, eating and working abroad, gave me expertise in the field of African diasporic foodways.
    Monifa Dayo, SFChronicle.com, 5 Oct. 2020
  • To create a cuisine that is fictional, yet feels specific, Banda drew not just on studies of African foodways, but on family recipes.
    Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2022
  • Each episode features one city or region, where Lakshmi embeds with local experts to learn more about their foodways and the challenges particular to them.
    Mike Sutter, ExpressNews.com, 15 June 2020
  • These are some Madison-area groups that support each other, put on events and collaborate on issues of food and land access, food sovereignty and ancestral foodways.
    Nicole Haase, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 Oct. 2021
  • Birdsall makes clear that Beard was focused on the food of European immigrants, a quiet acknowledgment that Beard didn’t seek to speak for all Americans or all their foodways.
    Madeline Leung Coleman, The Atlantic, 29 Nov. 2020
  • There aren’t enough bakeries like Reem’s in the United States (proclaims this student of Arab foodways), but its existence has begun to inspire others around the country to similar heights of excellence.
    Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 25 June 2022
  • The celebrity encounters are memorable, but for Dr. Harris, the test kitchen’s magic was its ability to educate the world about Black American foodways.
    New York Times, 18 Feb. 2022
  • Williams, who founded the nonprofit Southern Food and Beverage Museum in 2004, has worked for decades to ensure that recipes and foodways, with all of their origin stories, context and evolution, are kept alive.
    Ann Maloney, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2022
  • Appalachian foodways have always been as multicultural as the people who lived there.
    Sheri Castle, Travel + Leisure, 4 Sep. 2021
  • But like Southwestern cuisine, its lasting, primary influence is tied to the foodways of Mexico.
    Washington Post, 5 Aug. 2020
  • At the center of the series is the holistic experience of Black foodways, told for us, by us: our unique and complex migration, diverse customs, creativity and expertise on full display.
    Osayi Endolyn, New York Times, 17 May 2021
  • The canon of recipes and foodways emerging from Southern culture, shaped by centuries of agricultural and culinary labor by African people and their descendants, is the foundation of American cooking.
    Osayi Endolyn, New York Times, 17 May 2021
  • With 574 federally recognized Indian Nations in the United States, indigenous foodways are as diverse as the many regions that make up our country.
    Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 2 Nov. 2022
  • These anecdotes, Wassberg Johnson says, worked to reframe Black foodways in a more accurate and historical light than they had previously been presented in cookbooks and the media.
    Bon Appétit, 24 May 2022

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