Social Food: a Semioethic Perspective on Foodism and New Media by Raffaella Scelzi and Loredana La Fortuna
While Bronislaw Malinowski maintained that sexuality is the basis of social structure, his pupil, instead, Audrey Richards asserted that food is the real basis of human relationships. To support this idea, from an anthropological perspective, Claude Lévi-Strauss and Mary Douglas would seem to confirm the cultural and social importance of food.