Andrew Mitchel

Andrew Mitchel's recent work is an anthropological study of food, migration, and culture, focusing especially on Mexican (particularly Oaxacan) cooks and restaurateurs in the United States and Mexico. Topics include how immigrant chefs build businesses and identity in new cities, indigenous communities' responses to COVID-19, and broader questions of food culture, labor, and social inequality (including a piece on race in professional baseball). The work draws on ethnographic and qualitative methods typical of cultural anthropology and food studies rather than laboratory or quantitative biological science.

Publication output was minimal or absent for most of the decade but has increased noticeably since 2023, suggesting a recent growth in research activity.

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