 Our attitudes, practices and rituals around food are a window onto our most basic beliefs about the world and ourselves.”  As one research team puts it,We all eat, and associate different layers of cultural meaning to the food we consume.Explorations of food, then, can be an easy conduit into the complex world of intangible cultural heritage.Topics like social inclusion and exclusion, power, and sense making are explored under the umbrella term foodways.Furthermore, the ways in which food shapes and is shaped by social organization are essential to examination of foodways.