FOOD FEST, FEASTS, & GATHERINGS

Food fests, feasts, and gatherings address the role of food in events, gatherings, celebrations, and ceremonies. Exploring how people incorporate ideas about food into festival culture, including history, heritage, tradition, creativity, and social and political factors. 

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In addition, it examines festivals in which food is not the main focus, yet contributes significantly to the atmosphere, memory, and tradition. It also looks at people's fascination with taste. In addition to examining these notions, we will also examine trends in food consumption and production.

 

We are also interested in contributions that examine food experiences through travel and the relationship between street food and food at festivals. We also encourage submissions that focus on policies, preparation, and organising festival food. Practitioners are welcome to submit articles on their specific areas of interest in festival culture.

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We welcome theoretically informed and empirically grounded narratives about festivals, feasts, rituals, gatherings, and celebration food, including but not limited to:

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• History, heritage, and traditions

• Harvest

• Tourism

• Recipes and festivals

• Cultural identity and festivals

• Temporality

• Religion

• Religious celebrations

• Rituals and Ceremonies

• Food experiences

• Food: medicinal and ritual use

• Festival food and the senses

• Agriculture

• Food processing

• Taste and pleasure

• Food festivals

• Food festival competitions

• Festive cooking and eating versus everyday

• Organising and preparation of food 

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Submission: Open, Ongoing

Abstracts should provide an abstract (500 words) and author bios (100 words).

Written Submission:

Completed papers no longer than 5,000 words including reports.

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Key Dates:

500-word Abstract Proposal Submission: February 10th 2025

Notification of Acceptance: 28th February 2025

Completed Paper Submission Deadline: 20th April 2025

Expected Publication Date: 2025/26

 

Alternative Submission:

Interviews, discussions, or comments are 10 minutes.

A short film (between 10 and 25 minutes(s)).

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Abstracts/full papers previously published or under consideration for publication while being evaluated for this Journal will not be accepted. 

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Articles are peer-reviewed by JFCIA editors. An article which has been peer-reviewed successfully and is suitable for publication will be published.

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Contact us for details.

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