foodscape

English

Etymology

From food +‎ -scape.

Noun

foodscape (plural foodscapes)

1. A metaphorical landscape of foods and their production methods and cultural associations.
   • 2002, Warren James Belasco, Philip Scranton, Food Nations: Selling Taste in Consumer Societies, page 215:

     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 […]

   • 2010, Pauline Adema, Garlic Capital of the World, page 4:

     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.

   • 2014, Josee Johnston, Shyon Baumann, Foodies: Democracy and Distinction in the Gourmet Foodscape, page 3:

     We understand the foodscape as a dynamic social construction that relates food to places, people, meanings, and material processes.