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  • noun Plural form of foodway.
  • noun The food traditions or customs of a group of people.

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Examples

  • In such hands, what should be a food melting pot sometimes morphs into academic pot luck, with babble about "foodways," "community-focused food education" and something that editor Annie Hauck-Lawson calls the "food voice," which, she says, "can work in tandem with the spoken and written voice in order to enact holistic representation of identity, politics and human experience."

    Gastropolis: Food and New York City 2008

  • Ms. Harris refers to those eating habits, widely construed, as "foodways," and I wish she wouldn't.

    NYT > Home Page By DWIGHT GARNER 2011

  • The festival will highlight local food traditions, or "foodways," in conjunction with the Smithsonian's "Key Ingredients" foodways exhibit on display at the Agrirama through August 1.

    unknown title 2009

  • The festival will highlight local food traditions, or "foodways," in conjunction with the Smithsonian's "Key Ingredients" foodways exhibit on display at the Agrirama through August 1.

    unknown title 2009

  • The festival will highlight local food traditions, or "foodways," in conjunction with the Smithsonian's "Key Ingredients" foodways exhibit on display at the Agrirama through August 1.

    unknown title 2009

  • The festival will highlight local food traditions, or "foodways," in conjunction with the Smithsonian's "Key Ingredients" foodways exhibit on display at the Agrirama through August 1.

    unknown title 2009

  • The festival will highlight local food traditions, or "foodways," in conjunction with the Smithsonian's "Key Ingredients" foodways exhibit on display at the Agrirama through August 1.

    unknown title 2009

  • The festival will highlight local food traditions, or "foodways," in conjunction with the Smithsonian's "Key Ingredients" foodways exhibit on display at the Agrirama through August 1.

    unknown title 2009

  • The festival will highlight local food traditions, or "foodways," in conjunction with the Smithsonian's "Key Ingredients" foodways exhibit on display at the Agrirama through August 1.

    unknown title 2009

  • Notice how each product on the list tells a story -- of artisans, farmers, foodways and families -- and in doing so, offers a window into how others may live.

    Clean Plates: Fun, Socially Conscious Gift Ideas for Food Lovers Clean Plates 2011

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