We all need to eat. This is a biological fact, but it’s also a sociological fact. Sociology is the study of how people are organized in a particular time and place and thus, applying that lens to food means exploring how we organize access to food: when do people eat, what do people eat, and how do people eat, in the United States in 2022?
How we organize food makes everything else that we’ve come to cherish possible: shopping malls (who am I kidding — Amazon!), education, the ability to doom scroll Twitter, democracy.