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News: New Website
Hello, and Welcome to the newly designed Greater Midwest Foodways Alliance Website. Hope you like it! Many improvement have been added to this website to increase functionality, and better indexing. Documentation will be written up later if needed... Feel free to replace this message. This space is used to announce important announcement about GMFA which is will be displayed on every page.
- NNHS Webmasters Club 2008-09
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Why are foodways important?
Foodways is the study of what people eat and why. Why we procure, prepare and serve the food we do has cultural, sociological, geographical, financial and political influences.
Why is recognition of diverse foodways valuable?
Preserving our past and present for the future by research, documentation and oral histories. It is culinary anthropology on the hoof, paw, root and leaf.