I was always interested in food, but it honestly never occurred to me that I might become an anthropologist of food until after I wrote that sugar book and people began telling me that I was one. Very early I became interested in how people acquired, prepared, cooked, and served food, and that all came from my father.


American Anthropologist (September 2014)

Sidney Mintz Quotes

I was always interested in food, but it honestly never occurred to me that I might become an anthropologist of food until after I wrote that sugar...

I was always interested in food, but it honestly never occurred to me that I might become an anthropologist of food until after I wrote that sugar...

I was always interested in food, but it honestly never occurred to me that I might become an anthropologist of food until after I wrote that sugar...

I was always interested in food, but it honestly never occurred to me that I might become an anthropologist of food until after I wrote that sugar...