2016 Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2017 Association for the Study of Food and Society Award, best edited collection. The fifteen essays collected in Dethroning the Deceitful Pork Chop utilize a wide variety of methodological perspectives to explore African American food expressions from slavery up through the present. The volume offers fresh insights into a growing field beginning to reach maturity. The contributors demonstrate that throughout time black people have used food practices as a means of overtly resisting white oppression--through techniques like...
2016 Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2017 Association for the Study of Food and Society Award, best edited collection. The fi...
"Latin@s Presence in the Food Industry" takes the holistic culinary approach of bringing together multidisciplinary criticism to explore the diverse, and not always readily apparent, ways that Latin@s relate to food and the food industry.
The networks Latin@s create, the types of identities they fashion through food, and their relationship to the US food industry are analyzed to understand Latin@s as active creators of food-based communities, as distinctive cultural representations, and as professionals. This vibrant new collection acknowledges issues of labor conditions, economic...
"Latin@s Presence in the Food Industry" takes the holistic culinary approach of bringing together multidisciplinary criticism to explore the divers...
"Devouring Cultures" brings together contributors from a wide range of disciplines including media studies, rhetoric, gender studies, philosophy, anthropology, literary criticism, film criticism, race theory, history, and linguistics to examine the ways food signifies both culture and identity.
These scholars look for answers to intriguing questions: What does our choice of dining house say about our social class? Can restaurants teach us about a culture? How does food operate in "Downton Abbey"? How does food consumption in zombie apocalypse films and apocalyptic literature relate to...
"Devouring Cultures" brings together contributors from a wide range of disciplines including media studies, rhetoric, gender studies, philosophy, a...
The Taste of Art offers a sample of scholarly essays that examine the role of food in Western contemporary art practices. The contributors are scholars from a range of disciplines, including art history, philosophy, film studies, and history. As a whole, the volume illustrates how artists engage with food as matter and process in order to explore alternative aesthetic strategies and indicate countercultural shifts in society.
The collection opens by exploring the theoretical intersections of art and food, food art's historical root in Futurism, and the ways in which food...
The Taste of Art offers a sample of scholarly essays that examine the role of food in Western contemporary art practices. The contributors a...
Provides a cultural analysis of maple syrup making, known in Vermont as sugaring, to illustrate how maple syrup as both process and product is an aspect of cultural identity. So much more than a commodity study, Meanings of Maple frames a new approach for evaluating the broader implications of iconic foodways, and it will animate conversations in food studies for years to come.
Provides a cultural analysis of maple syrup making, known in Vermont as sugaring, to illustrate how maple syrup as both process and product is an aspe...
This collection of new essays offers groundbreaking perspectives on the ways that food and foodways serve as an element of decolonization in Mexican-origin communities. The writers here take us from multigenerational acequia farmers, who trace their ancestry to Indigenous families in place well before the Onate Entrada of 1598, to tomorrow's transborder travelers who will be negotiating entry into the United States. Throughout, we witness the shifting mosaic of Mexican-origin foods and foodways in the fields, gardens, and kitchen tables from Chiapas to Alaska. Global food...
This collection of new essays offers groundbreaking perspectives on the ways that food and foodways serve as an element of decolonization in Mexican-o...
Provides a cultural analysis of maple syrup making, known in Vermont as sugaring, to illustrate how maple syrup as both process and product is an aspect of cultural identity. So much more than a commodity study, Meanings of Maple frames a new approach for evaluating the broader implications of iconic foodways, and it will animate conversations in food studies for years to come.
Provides a cultural analysis of maple syrup making, known in Vermont as sugaring, to illustrate how maple syrup as both process and product is an aspe...
From the 1920s to the 1940s, American kitchens had a welcome guest in ""Aunt Sammy"", a creation on the radio of the US Department of Agriculture. Aunt Sammy's Radio Recipes revives the accompanying cookbook and joins it with excerpts from the radio broadcasts, providing a fascinating study of how a fictionalized personae became one of the early celebrity chefs of the radio age.
From the 1920s to the 1940s, American kitchens had a welcome guest in ""Aunt Sammy"", a creation on the radio of the US Department of Agriculture. Aun...
Examines the rhetorical power of storytelling in cookbooks to fortify notions of southernness. Carrie Helms Tippen brings to the table her ongoing hunt for recipe cards and evaluates a wealth of cookbooks with titles like Y'all Come Over and Bless Your Heart and famous cookbooks such as Sean Brock's Heritage.
Examines the rhetorical power of storytelling in cookbooks to fortify notions of southernness. Carrie Helms Tippen brings to the table her ongoing hun...
