State Leadership: Governors Work to Sustain Food Assistance

This resource explains how U.S. governors used state resources, emergency funds, and innovative strategies to sustain food assistance programs like SNAP during the 2025 federal shutdown and prepare for new administrative and cost-sharing challenges.

Food Justice and Food Sovereignty

This resource from Food Lifeline defines food sovereignty as the right of people to control their food systems and outlines its commitment to supporting community-driven solutions that ensure access to culturally relevant foods.

We Are Who We Eat With: Food, Distinction, and Commensality

This resource examines how commensality, or eating together, is a significant means by which individuals form identities and social bonds, and how eating alone in contemporary society, shared meals, and dietary choices are fundamental to the creation and maintenance...

Breaking Bread: The Functions of Social Eating

The research article examines the social benefits and evolutionary basis of eating meals with others and how social eating can enhance individual happiness, life satisfaction, and social bonding.
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