ENVS 312: Black & Asian Foodways (HC) Spring 2025

Let's say you're interested in the role of the collard greens in Black foodways.

Step 1: Break up this idea into two or three main concepts. Ignore extraneous words.

• Concept #1: collard greens
• Concept #2: Black
• Concept #3: foodways

Step 2: Conduct an initial search with these words, and quickly scan the results. 

Step 3: Using information from your initial search, add synonyms, acronyms, and variant spellings.

• Concept #1: collard greens, collards
• Concept #2: Black, African American
• Concept #3: foodways

Know the logic behind your search

• AND gives you results that include ALL of the words connected by the word 'AND'
• OR gives you results that include ANY of the words connected by the word 'OR'.
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• Essentially you are searching: 
  (collard greens OR collards) AND (Black OR "African American") AND foodways

culture, cultural          history, historical          social, society

economic, labor         eating, culinary, gastronomic, cuisine, cooking

habits, practices         traditions                     family, families

Come up with your own as well!