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foodscape

foodscape noun: a metaphorical landscape of foods and their production methods and cultural associations.

Noun

foodscape (plural foodscapes)

  1. A metaphorical landscape of foods and their production methods and cultural associations.
    • 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 […]2002, Warren James Belasco, Philip Scranton, Food Nations: Selling Taste in Consumer Societies, page 215
    • 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.2010, Pauline Adema, Garlic Capital of the World, page 4

Forms of foodscape

pluralfoodscapes

Origin of foodscape

From food + -scape.

Questions about foodscape

What does foodscape mean?
Foodscape means a metaphorical landscape of foods and their production methods and cultural associations.
What part of speech is foodscape?
Foodscape is a noun.
What is the plural of foodscape?
The plural of foodscape is foodscapes.

Words near foodscape in the dictionary

  1. foodpreneur
  2. foodpreneurs
  3. foodprint
  4. foodprints
  5. foods
  6. foodscape
  7. foodscapes
  8. foodseller
  9. foodsellers
  10. foodservice
  11. foodshed

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