Food Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Why, What and How We Eat: Nutrition

Ceremony, cookery, aesthetics all affect our desires in eating, but nutrition is the essential motivation.

Workers at the Perdue Farms Inc. processing plant prepare cleaned and gutted chickens for packaging at the plant in Accomac, Va. (AP Photo/J.Scott Applewhite)

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