Do take a look at the work of food anthropologist Carole Counihan, especially "Bread as World: Food Habits and Social Relations in Modernizing Sardinia," Anthropological Quarterly 57/2 (1984). She also has a review essay, "An anthropological view of women's prodigious fasting," in Food and Foodways 3/4 (1989), that you might find useful.
Susan Starr Sered's _Priestess, Mother, Sacred Sister_ (Oxford, 1996) delineates how women's religious roles involve feeding and nurturing across many different religions. Sered has also written about Jewish women's cooking as a sacred act, but I can't find the reference right now.
Best,
Sabina
Sabina Magliocco
Professor
Department of Anthropology
California State University - Northridge
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Greetings,
I am developing a syllabus on Food in Myth, Medicine, and Magic.
Any suggestions (scholarly articles/books/films) from Abrahamic religions would be much appreciated.
With thanks,
J. Reddy
Ph.D. student
University of Florida - Gainesville
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