In Remembrance: Sidney W. Mintz Died on December 27 2015

Sidney W. Mintz, considered by many to be the "father of food anthropology," passed away on December 27, 2015, in Plainsboro, New Jersey.  He was 93. 

He gained considerable renown from his book Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History, in which he linked the West's appetite for sugar with slavery and imperialism.  As a professor of anthropology at Yale, he played a role in creating a black studies curriculum.  Later, he cofounded the Department of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University.

A full story ran in the New York Times on December 30, 2015; Johns Hopkins University posted a tribute on December 29.