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April 9th, 10th and 11th,1999

Thursday Evening Mixer
Northwest Does It Great!

Friday Morning
Rachel Laudan, Mexico, author of award winning Food of Paradise - Exploring Hawaii's Culinary Heritage, has many other books. She has lectured throughout the world including teaching at University of Hawaii, Carnegie-Mellon University, Virginia Tech, Oregon State University, and presenting at the Oxford Symposium of Food and Cookery in England. She recently won the Sophie Coe Prize for Food History at the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery, a most prestigious award! She is currently writing a book on the history of food. The keynote address is tentatively titled "A World of Inauthentic Food".

Friday Afternoon
Dave LundahlOregon Food Innovation Center, Portland, will focus on the basics of how we develop and define food preferences and how hedonics function to the expectations of foods.

Mina McDaniel, Oregon, a world reknowned sensory expert, will present the case study of Asian noodles. She not only will discuss the different types of noodles but the difficulties of quantitating these differences into data that can be used for food product development.

Friday Evening
Jeffery Sobal, New York, will speak on issue of how modernization, urbanization, migration, and acculturation influence cultural aspects of food and nutrition. He has published many papers related to this topic and to that of cultural and historical aspects of obesity. He is an author and co-author in a number of books.

Saturaday Morning
Jacqueline Newman, New York, will speak on "Chinese Food Habits in the United States - Woks Cooking. A review of research and related history." Dr. Newman is Editor-in-Chief of Flavor and Fortunate, a magazine devoted to the scientirfic and artisitic significance of Chinese and other Asian cuisines. She has authored and co-authored a number of books on this topic.

Saturaday Afternoon

Saturday Evening Banquet
Edward Wood, Idaho, the renowned traveler for Sourdoughs International, is an expert on sour dough. He is a pathologist, biologist, wild yeast expert and master baker. In 1993 he participated in a National Geographic project to reproduce the first leavened breads at an excavated baking site in Egypt. His presentation is tentatively titled "Sour Doughs: From Antiquity to Today".

Sunday Morning
Louis Grivetti, California, will speak on the American History Through Food.

Submitted and Accepted Papers

Ken Albala The Place of Spain in European Nutritional Theory of the 16th Century

Gary Allen What Is The Flavor Of Human Flesh?

Amy Bentley Bread, Meat, and Rice: Exploring Cultural Elements of Food Protests and Riots

Dorothy Duncan Fur Traders Fare

Terrie Chrones Turkish Cultinary Culture; the Ottoman Influence

Lesly Egan Oregon Hazelnuts and Caneberries

Virginia "Val" Hillers The Abuela Project: A Community-Based Food Safety Intervention.

Joanne HollowsThe Bachelor Dinner: Masculinity, Domesticity and Food Practices in Playboy, 1953-63

Ben Jacobson Food-Ways Around the World and Global Trends

Geraldine Moreno-Black In Times Of Plenty And Times Of Scarcity: New Dietary Coping Strategies For Modern Times In Northeastern Thailand

Nasser Mustapha Food and Culture in a Post-Colonial Society

Kimberly D. Nettles "For Bread and Justice": Food discourse in anti-dictatorship struggles of post-Independent Guyana, South America

Lorraine L. Niba Tapioca And Tapioca Flour Products: Growing Awareness, Consumption And Potential

Jo Marie Powers The First Gastronomic Society in the New World: The Order of Good Cheer

Andrew F. Smith Tacos, Enchiladas and Refried Beans: The Invention of Mexican-American Food

Donna Stone Hazelnuts and Heritage

Sara L. Thomas, L.Lillian January, Jocelyn Moses, Eraina Palmer Warm Springs Native American Traditional Foods

Christine Thompson and David Newman You Eat What You Are? Social Identity And Food Among American College Students

Deanna L. Tribe, Cynthia S. Oliveri Changing Appalachian Foodways: Perceived Changes and Rationale for Food Habits of Applalachian Ohioans