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Interviews with Food Writers about their New Books Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/food

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Sara B. Franklin, "The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America" (Atria, 2024)
May 03, 2024
Michael Gilson, "Behind the Privet Hedge: Richard Sudell, the Suburban Garden and the Beautification of Britain" (Reaktion Books, 2024)
May 03, 2024
Crystal Wilkinson, "Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts: Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of Black Country Cooks" (Clarkson Potter, 2023)
May 02, 2024
John O'Brien, "States of Intoxication: The Place of Alcohol in Civilisation" (Routledge, 2018)
Apr 29, 2024
Tarana Husain Khan et al., Memories and Recipes from Muslim South Asia" (Pan Macmillan, 2023)
Apr 28, 2024
Ruth Reichl, "The Paris Novel" (Random House, 2024)
Apr 19, 2024
Richard Olsen-Harbich, "Sun, Sea, Soil, Wine: Winemaking on the North Fork of Long Island" (SUNY Press, 2024)
Apr 17, 2024
Victoria Flexner and Jay Reifel, "A History of the World in 10 Dinners: 2,000 Years, 100 Recipes" (Rizoli, 2023)
Apr 16, 2024
Grazia Ting Deng, "Chinese Espresso: Contested Race and Convivial Space in Contemporary Italy" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Apr 14, 2024
JJ Johnson and Danica Novgorodoff, "The Simple Art of Rice: Recipes from Around the World for the Heart of Your Table" (Flatiron Books, 2023)
Apr 13, 2024
Tina Sikka, "Health Apps, Genetic Diets and Superfoods: When Biopolitics Meets Neoliberalism" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Apr 05, 2024
Paul Hansen, "Hokkaido Dairy Farm: Cosmopolitics of Otherness and Security on the Frontiers of Japan" (SUNY Press, 2024)
Apr 03, 2024
Elizabeth S. D. Engelhardt, "Boardinghouse Women: How Southern Keepers, Cooks, Nurses, Widows, and Runaways Shaped Modern America" (UNC Press, 2023)
Mar 31, 2024
José Tenorio, "School Food Politics in Mexico: The Corporatization of Obesity and Healthy Eating Policies" (Routledge, 2023)
Mar 30, 2024
David E. Sutton, "Bigger Fish to Fry: A Theory of Cooking as Risk, with Greek Examples" (Berghahn, 2021)
Mar 28, 2024
Dinesh Wadiwel, "Animals and Capital" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
Mar 19, 2024
Xaq Frohlich on the History of Food Labeling
Mar 18, 2024
Secret Harvests: A Hidden Story of Separation and the Resilience of a Family Farm
Mar 14, 2024
Christy Spackman, "The Taste of Water: Sensory Perception and the Making of an Industrialized Beverage" (U California Press, 2023)
Mar 08, 2024
Alicia Kennedy, "No Meat Required: The Cultural History and Culinary Future of Plant-Based Eating" (Beacon Press, 2023)
Mar 06, 2024
Joanna Crosby, "Apples and Orchards Since the Eighteenth Century: Material Innovation and Cultural Tradition" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Mar 05, 2024
Alessandro Gerosa, "The Hipster Economy: Taste and Authenticity in Late Modern Capitalism (UCL Press, 2024)
Feb 27, 2024
The Taste of Water: A Conversation with Christy Spackman
Feb 26, 2024
Marcia Bricker Halperin, "Kibbitz and Nosh: When We All Met at Dubrow's Cafeteria" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Feb 25, 2024
Jennifer Regan-Lefebvre, "Imperial Wine: How the British Empire Made Wine’s New World" (U California Press, 2022)
Feb 16, 2024
Rob Percival, "The Meat Paradox: Eating, Empathy, and the Future of Meat" (Pegasus, 2022)
Feb 12, 2024
Yamini Narayanan, "Mother Cow, Mother India: A Multispecies Politics of Dairy in India" (Stanford UP, 2023)
Feb 11, 2024
Julia Ornelas-Higdon, "The Grapes of Conquest: Race, Labor, and the Industrialization of California Wine, 1769–1920" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
Feb 03, 2024
Use of Bacteriophages as Natural Antimicrobials to Manage Bacterial Pathogens in Aquaculture in Vietnam and Australia
Feb 02, 2024
Charlotte Coté, "A Drum in One Hand, a Sockeye in the Other: Stories of Indigenous Food Sovereignty from the Northwest Coast" (U Washington Press, 2022)
Jan 30, 2024
Loka Ashwood et al., "Empty Fields, Empty Promises: A State-By-State Guide to Understanding and Transforming the Right to Farm" (UNC Press, 2023)
Jan 24, 2024
James R. Fichter, "Tea: Consumption, Politics, and Revolution, 1773–1776" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Jan 24, 2024
Ian MacAllen, "Red Sauce: How Italian Food Became American" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)
Jan 22, 2024
Matthew Batt, "The Last Supper Club: A Waiter's Requiem" (U of Minnesota Press, 2023)
Jan 12, 2024
Martha C. Nussbaum, "Justice for Animals: Our Collective Responsibility" (Simon & Schuster, 2022)
Jan 02, 2024
Benjamin Lorr, "The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket" (Penguin, 2020)
Jan 01, 2024
Ilaria Tabusso Marcyan, "The Cultural Roots of Slow Food: Peasants, Partisans, and the Landscape of Italian Resistance" (Lexington Books, 2023)
Dec 30, 2023
Chetan Choithani, "Migration, Food Security and Development: Insights from Rural India" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Dec 17, 2023
Benjamin A. Wurgaft and Merry White, "Ways of Eating: Exploring Food Through History and Culture" (U California Press, 2023)
Dec 17, 2023
Caroline J. Smith, "Season to Taste: Rewriting Kitchen Space in Contemporary Women's Food Memoirs" (U Mississippi Press, 2023)
Dec 14, 2023
Lynn Z. Bloom, "Recipe" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Dec 13, 2023
Yan Slobodkin, "The Starving Empire: A History of Famine in France's Colonies" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Dec 11, 2023
Jesse Dart, "Feeding the Hustle: Free Food & Care Inside the Tech Industry" (Lexington Books, 2022)
Dec 11, 2023
Grace Lin, "Chinese Menu: The History, Myths, and Legends Behind Your Favorite Foods" (Little, Brown Books, 2023)
Dec 08, 2023
Jeremy Scheck, "ScheckEats-Cooking Smarter: Friendly Recipes with a Side of Science" (Harvest, 2023)
Dec 07, 2023
Dolly Kikon and Joel Rodrigues, "Food Journeys: Stories from the Heart" (Zubaan Books, 2023)
Dec 06, 2023
Christopher A. Whatley and Joanna Hambly, "Salt: Scotland's Newest Oldest Industry" (Birlinn, 2023)
Dec 05, 2023
Sara Byala, "Bottled: How Coca-Cola Became African" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Dec 03, 2023
Chhaya Kolavalli, "Well-Intentioned Whiteness: Green Urban Development and Black Resistance in Kansas City" (U Georgia Press, 2023)
Dec 02, 2023
Samiparna Samanta, "Meat, Mercy, Morality: Animals and Humanitarianism in Colonial Bengal, 1850-1920" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Dec 02, 2023
Anne Mendelson, "Spoiled: The Myth of Milk as Superfood" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Nov 22, 2023
Xaq Frohlich, "From Label to Table: Regulating Food in America in the Information Age" (U California Press, 2023)
Nov 10, 2023
Fuchsia Dunlop, "Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food" (Norton, 2023)
Nov 06, 2023
Babette’s Feast
Oct 30, 2023
Robert C. Bradley, "Eating Peru: A Gastronomic Journey" (U Oklahoma Press, 2023)
Oct 28, 2023
Big Night
Oct 23, 2023
Christopher John Bosso, "Why SNAP Works: A Political History--And Defense--of the Food Stamp Program" (U California Press, 2023)
Oct 14, 2023
Janet Chrzan and Kima Cargill, "Anxious Eaters: Why We Fall for Fad Diets" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Oct 09, 2023
Christina Ward, "Holy Food: How Cults, Communes and Religious Movements Influenced What We Eat" (Process, 2023)
Sep 30, 2023
Globalisation and Glocalisation of Bubble Tea
Sep 29, 2023
Michelle K. Berry, "Cow Talk: Work, Ecology, and Range Cattle Ranchers in the Postwar Mountain West" (U Oklahoma Press, 2023)
Sep 26, 2023
Diane Flynt, "Wild, Tamed, Lost, Revived: The Surprising Story of Apples in the South" (UNC Press, 2023)
Sep 20, 2023
Daniel Jaffee, "Unbottled: The Fight Against Plastic Water and for Water Justice" (U California Press, 2023)
Sep 17, 2023
Robert F. Moss, "The Lost Southern Chefs: A History of Commercial Dining in the Nineteenth-Century South" (U Georgia Press, 2022)
Sep 12, 2023
A Better Way to Buy Books
Sep 12, 2023
Ines Prodöhl, "Globalizing the Soybean: Fat, Feed, and Sometimes Food, c. 1900–1950" (Routledge, 2023)
Sep 11, 2023
Jeanne K. Firth, "Feeding New Orleans: Celebrity Chefs and Reimagining Food Justice" (UNC Press, 2023)
Sep 09, 2023
Ulbe Bosma, "The World of Sugar: How the Sweet Stuff Transformed Our Politics, Health, and Environment Over 2,000 Years" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Aug 20, 2023
Diane Purkiss, "English Food: A Social History of England Told Through the Food on Its Tables (William Collins, 2022)
Aug 18, 2023
Bobby J. Smith II, "Food Power Politics: The Food Story of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement" (UNC Press, 2023)
Aug 16, 2023
Linda Skeens, "Linda Skeens' Blue Ribbon Kitchen: Recipes & Tips from America's Favorite County Fair Champion" (83 Press, 2023)
Aug 08, 2023
Richard C. Hoffmann, "The Catch: An Environmental History of Medieval European Fisheries" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Aug 07, 2023
Erica Abrams Locklear, "Appalachia on the Table: Representing Mountain Food and People" (U Georgia Press, 2023)
Jul 28, 2023
Rebecca Sharpless, "Grain and Fire: A History of Baking in the American South" (UNC Press, 2022)
Jul 25, 2023
US History in 15 Foods: A Conversation with Anna Zeide
Jul 24, 2023
Ben Nadler, "The Jewish Deli: An Illustrated Guide to the Chosen Food" (Chronicle Books, 2023)
Jul 18, 2023
Victoria Lee, "The Arts of the Microbial World: Fermentation Science in Twentieth-Century Japan" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
Jul 16, 2023
Jon Michaud, "Last Call at Coogan's: The Life and Death of a Neighborhood Bar" (St. Martin's Press, 2023)
Jul 16, 2023
Meg Bernhard, "Wine" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Jul 15, 2023
The Future of Food: A Discussion with Kimberly Wilson
Jul 14, 2023
Linda J. Seligmann, "Quinoa: Food Politics and Agrarian Life in the Andean Highlands" (U Illinois Press, 2022)
Jul 08, 2023
Malcolm F. Purinton, "Globalization in a Glass: The Rise of Pilsner Beer through Technology, Taste and Empire" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Jul 03, 2023
Sarah L. Hall, "Sown in the Stars: Planting by the Signs" (UP of Kentucky, 2023)
Jul 03, 2023
Josh Milburn, "Food, Justice, and Animals: Feeding the World Respectfully" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Jun 15, 2023
Amanda L. Van Lanen, "The Washington Apple: Orchards and the Development of Industrial Agriculture" (U Oklahoma Press, 2022)
Jun 09, 2023
Ed Mitchell et al., "Ed Mitchell's Barbeque" (Ecco, 2023)
May 26, 2023
Troy Bickham, "Eating the Empire: Food and Society in Eighteenth-Century Britain" (Reaktion Books, 2020)
May 19, 2023
Rachel Robison-Greene, "Edibility and in Vitro Meat: Ethical Considerations" (Lexington Books, 2022)
Apr 21, 2023
Kathryn Cornell Dolan, "Breakfast Cereal: A Global History" (Reaktion Books, 2023)
Apr 19, 2023
Maria Pasquale, "The Eternal City: Recipes and Stories from Rome" (Smith Street Books, 2023)
Apr 14, 2023
Food Routes: Growing Bananas in Iceland and Other Tales from the Logistics of Eating
Apr 13, 2023
Brian Kateman, "Meat Me Halfway" (Prometheus Books, 2022)
Apr 12, 2023
The Cooperative Extension System
Apr 10, 2023
Adam Geczy and Vicki Karaminas, "Gastrofashion from Haute Cuisine to Haute Couture: Fashion and Food" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Apr 07, 2023
Sara Rich, "Mushroom" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Mar 25, 2023
Susan Gravely, "Italy on a Plate: Travels, Memories, Menus" (Vietri Publishing, 2023)
Mar 22, 2023
Measure for Measure Episode 5: Scoville
Mar 06, 2023
Measure for Measure Episode 2: Olives
Mar 03, 2023
Susan Weingarten, "Haroset: A Taste of Jewish History" (Toby Press, 2019)
Feb 26, 2023
Gesine Bullock-Prado, "My Vermont Table: Recipes for All (Six) Seasons" (Countryman Press, 2023)
Feb 25, 2023
Anna Zeide, "US History in 15 Foods" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Feb 20, 2023
Azzan Yadin-Israel, "Temptation Transformed: The Story of How the Forbidden Fruit Became an Apple" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Feb 20, 2023
Lisa Haushofer, "Wonder Foods: The Science and Commerce of Nutrition" (U California Press, 2022)
Feb 14, 2023
John Goodlad, "The Salt Roads: How Fish Made a Culture" (Birlinn, 2022)
Feb 10, 2023
Jessica Barnes, "Staple Security: Bread and Wheat in Egypt" (Duke UP, 2022)
Feb 10, 2023
Arthur Bovino, "Buffalo Everything: A Guide to Eating in Nickel City with 50 Recipes" (Countryman Press, 2018)
Feb 08, 2023
Gendered Labor, Food Security, and Technology in 20th Century Mali
Feb 06, 2023
Angela Hui, "Takeaway: Stories from a Childhood Behind the Counter" (Trapeze, 2022)
Feb 02, 2023
Corey Lee Wrenn, "Animals in Irish Society: Interspecies Oppression and Vegan Liberation in Britain's First Colony" (SUNY Press, 2021)
Jan 28, 2023
Silvia Nacamulli, "Jewish Flavours of Italy: A Family Cookbook" (Green Bean Books, 2022)
Jan 25, 2023
Helen Anne Curry, "Endangered Maize: Industrial Agriculture and the Crisis of Extinction" (U California Press, 2022)
Jan 21, 2023
Surviving the State: Struggles for Land and Democracy in Myanmar
Jan 20, 2023
Dalal Abo El Seoud, "Fish, Milk, Tamarind: A Book of Egyptian Arabic Food Expressions" (American U in Cairo Press, 2022)
Jan 18, 2023
Consumed: The Myth and Reality of Cannibalism
Jan 14, 2023
Forbidden Fruit: Religious Fervor about Food
Jan 12, 2023
David Z. Moster, "Etrog: How A Chinese Fruit Became a Jewish Symbol" (Palgrave Pivot, 2018)
Jan 11, 2023
Gil Hovav, "Candies from Heaven" (Green Bean Books, 2023)
Jan 08, 2023
Martha C. Nussbaum, "Justice for Animals: Our Collective Responsibility" (Simon & Schuster, 2022)
Dec 31, 2022
Hélène Jawhara Piñer, "Jews, Food, and Spain: The Oldest Medieval Spanish Cookbook and the Sephardic Culinary Heritage" (Academic Studies Press, 2022)
Dec 27, 2022
Garritt van Dyk, "Commerce, Food, and Identity in Seventeenth-Century England and France" (Amsterdam UP, 2022)
Dec 26, 2022
Naa Oyo A. Kwate, "White Burgers, Black Cash: Fast Food from Black Exclusion to Exploitation" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
Dec 25, 2022
Annuska Derks et al. "Fragrant Frontier: Global Spice Entanglements from the Sino-Vietnamese Uplands" (NIAS Press, 2022)
Dec 23, 2022
The ‘Domino Effect’: Global and Regional Climate Change Impacts on Food Supply Chains
Dec 22, 2022
Ben Pitcher, "Back to the Stone Age: Race and Prehistory in Contemporary Culture" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)
Dec 18, 2022
Michael Weeks, "Cattle Beet Capital: Making Industrial Agriculture in Northern Colorado" (U Nebraska Press, 2022)
Dec 17, 2022
Rebecca Ingram, "Women's Work: How Culinary Cultures Shaped Modern Spain" (Vanderbilt UP, 2022)
Dec 16, 2022
Max Haiven, "Palm Oil: The Grease of Empire" (Pluto Press, 2022)
Dec 08, 2022
Melanie Joy, "The Vegan Matrix: Understanding and Discussing Privilege Among Vegans to Build a More Inclusive and Empowered Movement" (Lantern, 2020)
Dec 02, 2022
Olena Braichenko et al., "Ukraine: Food and History" (O. Braichenko, 2020)
Nov 30, 2022
Darra Goldstein, "The Kingdom of Rye: A Brief History of Russian Food" (U California Press, 2022)
Nov 28, 2022
Erin Alice Cowling, "Chocolate: How a New World Commodity Conquered Spanish Literature" (U Toronto Press, 2021)
Nov 21, 2022
Psyche A. Williams-Forson, "Eating While Black: Food Shaming and Race in America" (UNC Press, 2022)
Nov 21, 2022
Emily J. H. Contois and Zenia Kish, "Food Instagram: Identity, Influence, and Negotiation" (U Illinois Press, 2022)
Nov 10, 2022
Christopher Howard, "Who Cares: The Social Safety Net in America" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Nov 08, 2022
Gurpinder Singh Lalli, "Schools, Space and Culinary Capital" (Routledge, 2022)
Nov 03, 2022
Will Guidara, "Unreasonable Hospitality: The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect" (Optimism Press, 2022)
Nov 02, 2022
Sustainable Agriculture in the Global South: A Religious Response to the Global Food Crisis
Oct 25, 2022
John Briscoe, "Crush: The Triumph of California Wine" (U Nevada Press, 2018)
Oct 19, 2022
Alan Warde et al., "The Social Significance of Dining Out: A Study of Continuity and Change" (Manchester UP, 2020)
Oct 12, 2022
Warren Klein et al., "Be Fruitful! The Etrog in Jewish Art, Culture, and History" (Mineged, 2022)
Oct 07, 2022
Emelia Quinn, "Reading Veganism: The Monstrous Vegan, 1818 to Present" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Oct 06, 2022
Angela Tedesco, "Finding Turtle Farm: My Twenty-Acre Adventure in Community-Supported Agriculture" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
Oct 03, 2022
Beyond Meat? Dietary Shifts and Meat Contestations in China, India and Vietnam
Sep 30, 2022
Stephen Le, "100 Million Years of Food: What Our Ancestors Ate and Why It Matters Today" (Picador, 2016)
Sep 29, 2022
Hannah Kirshner, "Water, Wood, and Wild Things: Learning Craft and Cultivation in a Japanese Mountain Town" (Penguin, 2022)
Sep 22, 2022
Kenneth H. Kolb, "Retail Inequality: Reframing the Food Desert Debate" (U California Press, 2021)
Sep 20, 2022
Philip Lymbery, "Sixty Harvests Left: How to Reach a Nature-Friendly Future" (Bloombury, 2022)
Sep 19, 2022
Sanjiv Chopra, "Coffee the Magical Elixir: Facts That Will Astound and Perk You Up" (Bookbaby, 2021)
Sep 14, 2022
Carl A. Brasseaux and Donald W. Davis, "Asian-Cajun Fusion: Shrimp from the Bay to the Bayou" (UP of Mississippi, 2022)
Sep 13, 2022
Allyson P. Brantley, "Brewing a Boycott: How a Grassroots Coalition Fought Coors and Remade American Consumer Activism" (UNC Press, 2021)
Sep 06, 2022
William Alexander, "Ten Tomatoes that Changed the World" (Grand Central Publishing, 2022)
Sep 02, 2022
Josh Milburn, "Just Fodder: The Ethics of Feeding Animals" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)
Aug 31, 2022
Mélissa Mialon, "Big Food & Co" (Thierry Souccar Editions, 2021)
Aug 26, 2022
Addressing Hunger, Food Insecurity--Local Solutions to a Global Problem
Aug 25, 2022
Alex Drace-Francis, "The Making of Mămăligă: Transimperial Recipes for a Romanian National Dish" (Central European UP, 2022)
Aug 19, 2022
Paolo Squatriti, "Weeds and the Carolingians: Empire, Culture, and Nature in Frankish Europe, AD 750-900" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Aug 17, 2022
Angela Ki Che Leung et al., "Moral Foods: The Construction of Nutrition and Health in Modern Asia" (U Hawaii Press, 2019)
Aug 16, 2022
Made of Corn: How Genetically Modified Corn Changed Science, Academia and Indigenous Rights in Mexico (Part 2 of 2)
Aug 12, 2022
Modifying Maize: How Genetically Modified Corn Changed Science, Academia and Indigenous Rights in Mexico (Part 1 of 2)
Aug 11, 2022
Michael J. Hathaway, "What a Mushroom Lives For: Matsutake and the Worlds They Make" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Aug 08, 2022
Tara Nurin, "A Woman's Place Is in the Brewhouse: A Forgotten History of Alewives, Brewsters, Witches, and CEOs" (Chicago Review Press, 2021)
Aug 08, 2022
Christopher Craig, "Middlemen of Modernity: Local Elites and Agricultural Development in Meiji Japan" (U Hawaii Press, 2022)
Aug 05, 2022
Jin Feng, "Tasting Paradise on Earth: Jiangnan Foodways" (U Washington Press, 2019)
Aug 01, 2022
Kelsi Matwick and Keri Matwick, "Food Discourse of Celebrity Chefs of Food Network" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2019)
Jul 18, 2022
Tanya M. Peres and Aaron Deter-Wolf, "Baking, Bourbon, and Black Drink" (U Alabama Press, 2018)
Jul 14, 2022
Veronica S. W. Mak, "Milk Craze: Body, Science, and Hope in China" (U Hawaii Press, 2021)
Jul 14, 2022
Elena Conis, "How to Sell a Poison: The Rise, Fall, and Toxic Return of DDT" (Bold Type Books, 2022)
Jul 13, 2022
Biscuit Art
Jul 04, 2022
Gina Louise Hunter, "Edible Insects: A Global History" (2021)
Jun 29, 2022
Francesco Buscemi, "Pasta, Pizza and Propaganda: A Political History of Italian Food TV" (Intellect, 2022)
Jun 23, 2022
Emily J. H. Contois and Zenia Kish, "Food Instagram: Identity, Influence, and Negotiation" (U Illinois Press, 2022)
Jun 22, 2022
On Religion, Food, and Eating in America
Jun 17, 2022
Natalia Molina, "A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community" (U California Press, 2022)
Jun 17, 2022
On Buddhism, Adventures, and Cooking Ethics
Jun 16, 2022
Danya Glabau, "Food Allergy Advocacy: Parenting and the Politics of Care" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
Jun 10, 2022
Samaa Badawi et al., "School Farms: Feeding and Educating Children" (Routledge, 2021)
Jun 03, 2022
Tracey Deutsch, "Building a Housewife's Paradise: Gender, Politics, and American Grocery Stores in the Twentieth Century" (UNC Press, 2010)
May 31, 2022
Modernist Mushrooms
May 30, 2022
Aniket Aga, "Genetically Modified Democracy: Transgenic Crops in Contemporary India" (Yale UP, 2022)
May 30, 2022
Adam M. Romero, "Economic Poisoning: Industrial Waste and the Chemicalization of American Agriculture" (U California Press, 2021)
May 30, 2022
John Cardina, "Lives of Weeds: Opportunism, Resistance, Folly" (Comstock Publishing, 2021)
May 23, 2022
Liz Carlisle, "Healing Grounds: Climate, Justice, and the Deep Roots of Regenerative Farming" (Island Press, 2022)
May 23, 2022
Scott Reynolds Nelson, "Oceans of Grain: How American Wheat Remade the World" (Basic Books, 2022)
May 23, 2022
William Wayne Farris, "A Bowl for a Coin: A Commodity History of Japanese Tea" (U Hawaii Press, 2019)
May 04, 2022
Jo Guldi, "The Long Land War: The Global Struggle for Occupancy Rights" (Yale UP, 2022)
May 03, 2022
Paul Geary, "Experimental Dining: Performance, Experience and Ideology in Contemporary Creative Restaurants" (Intellect Books, 2022)
May 02, 2022
Megan Birk, "The Fundamental Institution: Poverty, Social Welfare, and Agriculture in American Poor Farms" (U Illinois Press, 2022)
Apr 22, 2022
Susanne A. Wengle, "Black Earth, White Bread: A Technopolitical History of Russian Agriculture and Food" (U Wisconsin Press, 2022)
Apr 15, 2022
Diana Garvin, "Feeding Fascism: The Politics of Women's Food Work" (U Toronto Press, 2022)
Apr 15, 2022
María Elena García, "Gastropolitics and the Specter of Race: Stories of Capital, Culture, and Coloniality in Peru" (U California Press, 2021)
Apr 15, 2022
Albena Shkodrova, "Rebellious Cooks and Recipe Writing in Communist Bulgaria" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Apr 06, 2022
Rob Percival, "The Meat Paradox: Eating, Empathy, and the Future of Meat" (Pegasus, 2022)
Mar 23, 2022
Thomas F. Thornton and Madonna L. Moss, "Herring and People of the North Pacific: Sustaining a Keystone Species" (U Washington Press, 2021)
Mar 16, 2022
Joshua Frens-String, "Hungry for Revolution: The Politics of Food and the Making of Modern Chile" (UC Press, 2021)
Mar 09, 2022
Jo Handelsman, "A World Without Soil: The Past, Present, and Precarious Future of the Earth Beneath Our Feet" (Yale UP, 2021)
Mar 07, 2022
Beth M. Forrest and Greg de St Maurice, "Food in Memory and Imagination: Space, Place and Taste" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Feb 22, 2022
David Boarder Giles, "A Mass Conspiracy to Feed People: Food Not Bombs and the World-Class Waste of Global Cities" (Duke UP, 2021)
Feb 22, 2022
Michelle Jurkovich, "Feeding the Hungry: Advocacy and Blame in the Global Fight Against Hunger" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Feb 07, 2022
John Cardina, "Lives of Weeds: Opportunism, Resistance, Folly" (Cornell UP, 2021)
Jan 19, 2022
Suzanne Cope, "Power Hungry: Women of the Black Panther Party and Freedom Summer and Their Fight to Feed a Movement" (Lawrence Hill Books, 2021)
Jan 17, 2022
Rebecca Corbett, "Cultivating Femininity: Women and Tea Culture in Edo and Meiji Japan" (U Hawaii Press, 2019)
Jan 17, 2022
Alison Hope Alkon, "A Recipe for Gentrification: Food, Power, and Resistance in the City" (NYU Press, 2020)
Dec 31, 2021
Clarissa Hyman, "Tomato: A Global History" (Reaktion Books, 2019)
Dec 24, 2021
Dave Goulson, "Silent Earth: Averting the Insect Apocalypse" (Harper, 2021)
Dec 24, 2021
Rebecca J. Lester, "Famished: Eating Disorders and Failed Care in America" (U California Press, 2019)
Dec 21, 2021
Vivian Nun Halloran, "The Immigrant Kitchen: Food, Ethnicity, and Diaspora" (Ohio State UP, 2016)
Dec 17, 2021
Shelley L. Koch, "Gender and Food: A Critical Look at the Food System" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2019)
Dec 17, 2021
Kristy Nabhan-Warren, "Meatpacking America: How Migration, Work, and Faith Unite and Divide the Heartland" (UNC Press, 2021)
Dec 13, 2021
Bryant Terry, "Black Food: Stories, Art, and Recipes from Across the African Diaspora" (4 Color Books, 2021)
Dec 13, 2021
Priya Fielding-Singh, "How the Other Half Eats: The Untold Story of Food and Inequality in America" (Little Brown Spark, 2021)
Dec 10, 2021
Ramin Ganeshram, "Saffron: A Global History" (Reaktion Books, 2020)
Dec 07, 2021
Fabio Parasecoli, "Food" (MIT, 2019)
Dec 06, 2021
Jonatan Leer and S. G. S. Krogager, "Research Methods in Digital Food Studies" (Routledge, 2021)
Dec 02, 2021
Joseph C. Ewoodzie, "Getting Something to Eat in Jackson: Race, Class, and Food in the American South" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Dec 01, 2021
Pascale Joassart-Marcelli, "The Sixteen-Dollar Taco: Contested Geographies of Food, Ethnicity, and Gentrification" (U Washington Press, 2021)
Nov 30, 2021
Demet Güzey, "Mustard: A Global History" (Reaktion Books, 2019)
Nov 30, 2021
Joshua Sbicca, "Food Justice Now!: Deepening the Roots of Social Struggle" (U Minnesota Press, 2018)
Nov 23, 2021
Rose Wellman, "Feeding Iran: Shi`i Families and the Making of the Islamic Republic" (U California Press, 2021)
Nov 22, 2021
Jeff Miller, "Avocado: A Global History" (Reaktion Books, 2020)
Nov 18, 2021
Xavier Naville, "The Lettuce Diaries: How A Frenchman Found Gold Growing Vegetables In China" (Earnshaw Books, 2021)
Nov 18, 2021
Rosa Abreu-Runkel, "Vanilla: A Global History" (Reaktion Books, 2020)
Nov 15, 2021
Jen Corrinne Brown, "Trout Culture: How Fly Fishing Forever Changed the Rocky Mountain West" (U Washington Press, 2017)
Nov 12, 2021
Edward Slingerland, "Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization" (Hachette, 2021)
Nov 10, 2021
Jonathan Morris, "Coffee: A Global History" (Reaktion Books, 2018)
Nov 09, 2021
Hannah Kirshner, "Water, Wood, and Wild Things: Learning Craft and Cultivation in a Japanese Mountain Town" (Viking, 2021)
Nov 08, 2021
A Chemistry Professor Shares his Grief and his Favorite Recipes: A Conversation with David Smith
Nov 04, 2021
Peter S. Ungar, "Evolution's Bite: A Story of Teeth, Diet, and Human Origins" (Princeton UP, 2018)
Nov 01, 2021
Kristy Nabhan-Warren, "Meatpacking America: How Migration, Work, and Faith Unite and Divide the Heartland" (UNC Press, 2021)
Oct 28, 2021
Nicolette Hahn Niman, "Defending Beef: The Ecological and Nutritional Case for Meat" (Chelsea Green, 2021)
Oct 26, 2021
Julian Agyeman and Sydney Giacalone, "The Immigrant-Food Nexus: Borders, Labor, and Identity in North America" (MIT Press, 2020)
Oct 26, 2021
Seth M. Siegel, "Troubled Water: What's Wrong with What We Drink" (Thomas Dunne, 2020)
Oct 18, 2021
Robert Hellyer, "Green with Milk and Sugar: When Japan Filled America's Tea Cups" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Oct 15, 2021
From Animal Rights to Human Rights: Supporting Sustainable Farming Practices to Improve Livelihoods
Oct 14, 2021
Rebecca Earle, "Feeding the People: The Politics of the Potato" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Oct 11, 2021
Jonathan Rees, "The Chemistry of Fear: Harvey Wiley's Fight for Pure Food" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)
Sep 28, 2021
Bob Quinn and Liz Carlisle, "Grain by Grain: A Quest to Revive Ancient Wheat, Rural Jobs, and Healthy Food" (Island Press, 2019)
Sep 27, 2021
Rob Dunn and Monica Sanchez, "Delicious: The Evolution of Flavor and How It Made Us Human" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Sep 23, 2021
Matt Frazier and Robert Cheeke, "The Plant-Based Athlete: A Game-Changing Approach to Peak Performance" (HarperOne, 2021)
Sep 16, 2021
Ann Vileisis, "Abalone: The Remarkable History and Uncertain Future of California's Iconic Shellfish" (Oregon State UP, 2020)
Sep 15, 2021
Ken Meter, "Building Community Food Webs" (Island Press, 2021)
Sep 08, 2021
Arnab Dey, "Tea Environments and Plantation Culture: Imperial Disarray in Eastern India" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Sep 07, 2021
Lindsay Naylor, "Fair Trade Rebels: Coffee Production and Struggles for Autonomy in Chiapas" (U Minnesota Press, 2019)
Sep 06, 2021
Jessica Fanzo, "Can Fixing Dinner Fix the Planet?" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)
Sep 03, 2021
Lettie Gay, "Two Hundred Years of Charleston Cooking" ( U South Carolina Press, 2021)
Sep 01, 2021
Susan V. Spellman, "Cornering the Market: Independent Grocers and Innovation in American Small Business" (Oxford UP, 2016)
Sep 01, 2021
Hélène Jawhara Piñer, "Sephardi: Cooking the History. Recipes of the Jews of Spain and the Diaspora, from the 13th Century Onwards" (Cherry Orchard, 2021)
Aug 30, 2021
Thomas C. Hubka, "Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn: The Connected Farm Buildings of New England" (UP of New England, 2004)
Aug 24, 2021
Michael Twitty, "Rice: A Savor the South Cookbook" (UNC Press, 2021)
Aug 20, 2021
Zuza Zak, "Amber & Rye: A Baltic Food Journey: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania" (Allen & Unwin, 2021)
Aug 20, 2021
Jonathan E. Robins, "Oil Palm: A Global History" (UNC Press, 2021)
Aug 17, 2021
Benjamin R. Cohen et al., "Acquired Tastes: Stories about the Origins of Modern Food" (MIT Press, 2021)
Aug 17, 2021
Hanno Jentzsch, "Harvesting State Support: Institutional Change and Local Agency in Japanese Agriculture" (U Toronto Press, 2021)
Aug 11, 2021
Annemarie Mol, "Eating in Theory" (Duke UP, 2021)
Jul 29, 2021
Alison K. Smith, "Cabbage and Caviar: A History of Food in Russia" (Reaktion Books, 2021)
Jul 27, 2021
Gina G. Warren, "Hatched: Dispatches from the Backyard Chicken Movement" (U Washington Press, 2021)
Jul 20, 2021
Eric C. Rath, "Oishii: The History of Sushi" (Reaktion Books, 2021)
Jul 14, 2021
Nicoletta Batini, "The Economics of Sustainable Food: Smart Policies for Health and the Planet" (Island Press, 2021)
Jul 13, 2021
Rod Phillips, "French Wine: A History" (U California Press, 2016)
Jul 08, 2021
From the Archives: Supporting Sustainable Farming Practices in Cambodia with Professor Daniel Tan
Jul 08, 2021
Stephen V. Bittner, "Whites and Reds: A History of Wine in the Lands of Tsar and Commissar" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Jul 01, 2021
Benjamin Lorr, "The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket" (Penguin, 2020)
Jun 29, 2021
Jamie Kreiner, "Legions of Pigs in the Early Medieval West" (Yale UP, 2020)
Jun 24, 2021
Sarah K. Mock, "Farm (and Other F Words): The Rise and Fall of the Small Family Farm" (New Degree Press, 2021)
Jun 23, 2021
Shane Hamilton, "Supermarket USA: Food and Power in the Cold War Farms Race" (Yale UP, 2018)
Jun 22, 2021
Kate Lebo, "The Book of Difficult Fruit: Arguments for the Tart, Tender, and Unruly (with Recipes)" (FSG, 2021)
Jun 04, 2021
Jon Keune, "Shared Devotion, Shared Food: Equality and the Bhakti-Caste Question in Western India" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Jun 03, 2021
Dianne Jacob, "Will Write for Food" (Hachette Go, 2021)
Jun 02, 2021
Margaret Magat, "Balut: Fertilized Eggs and the Making of Culinary Capital in the Filipino Diaspora" (Bloomsbury, 2019)
May 26, 2021
Amanda Ciafone, "Counter-Cola: A Multinational History of the Global Corporation" (U California Press, 2019)
May 20, 2021
Christina Ward, "American Advertising Cookbooks: How Corporations Taught Us to Love Bananas, Spam, and Jell-O" (Process, 2018)
May 10, 2021
Lindsay Gardner, "Why We Cook: Women on Food, Identity, and Connection" (Workman, 2021)
May 07, 2021
Of Rice and Men: How Food Production is Driving Antimicrobial Resistance amongst Fungi in Vietnam
May 06, 2021
R. Harde and J. Wesselius, "Consumption and the Literary Cookbook" (Routledge, 2020)
Apr 08, 2021
Lucas Bessire, "Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Apr 01, 2021
Carol J. Adams, "The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory" (Bloomsbury, 2015)
Mar 19, 2021
Tessa Clarke: Co Founder & CEO of Olio, a Company Dedicated to Cutting Food Waste
Mar 16, 2021
Rethinking Rural Livelihoods and Food Security in Myanmar with Assistant Professor Mark Vicol
Mar 04, 2021
Tom Philpott, "Perilous Bounty: The Looming Collapse of American Farming and How We Can Prevent It" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Mar 04, 2021
Priya Basil, "Be My Guest: Reflections on Food, Community, and the Meaning of Generosity" (Knopf, 2020)
Mar 04, 2021
Winifred Bird, "Eating Wild Japan: Tracking the Culture of Foraged Foods, with a Guide to Plants and Recipes" (Stone Bridge Press, 2021)
Mar 01, 2021
Sam van Zweden, "Eating with My Mouth Open" (NewSouth, 2021)
Feb 26, 2021
Kaitland M. Byrd, "Real Southern Barbecue: Constructing Authenticity in Southern Food Culture" (Lexington, 2019)
Feb 25, 2021
Eli Revelle Yano Wilson, "Front of the House, Back of the House: Race and Inequality in the Lives of Restaurant Workers" (NYU Press, 2020)
Feb 12, 2021
Anthony Warner, "Ending Hunger: The Quest to Feed the World without Destroying It" (Simon and Schuster, 2021)
Feb 09, 2021
M. Nestle and K. Trueman, "Let's Ask Marion: What You Need to Know about the Politics of Food, Nutrition, and Health" (U California Press, 2020)
Jan 13, 2021
K. M. Broton and C. L. Cady, "Food Insecurity on Campus: Action and Intervention" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020)
Jan 11, 2021
Mike Shanahan, "Ladders to Heaven: How Figs Shaped our History" (Unbound, 2016)
Dec 04, 2020
Peter Singer, "Why Vegan?: Eating Ethically" (Liveright, 2020)
Dec 03, 2020
Amalia Leguizamón, "Seeds of Power: Environmental Injustice and Genetically Modified Soybeans in Argentina" (Duke UP, 2020)
Nov 24, 2020
Emily J. H. Contois, "Diners, Dudes, and Diets: How Gender and Power Collide in Food Media and Culture" (UNC Press, 2020)
Nov 19, 2020
James Staples, "Sacred Cows and Chicken Manchurian: The Everyday Politics of Eating Meat in India" (U Washington Press, 2020)
Nov 09, 2020
Improving Food Security in Laos and Cambodia: A Farmer’s Perspective with Associate Professor Russell Bush
Nov 05, 2020
Andrew Liu, "Tea War: A History of Capitalism in China and India" (Yale UP, 2020)
Nov 04, 2020
Jessica Martell, "Farm to Form: Modernist Literature and Ecologies of Food in the British Empire" (U Nevada Press, 2020)
Oct 01, 2020
Brian R. Dott, "The Chile Pepper in China: A Cultural Biography" (Columbia UP, 2020)
Sep 23, 2020
Lauren F. Klein, "An Archive of Taste: Race and Eating in the Early United States" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
Aug 24, 2020
K. Keeling and S. Pollard, "Table Lands: Food in Children's Literature" (U Mississippi Press, 2020)
Aug 14, 2020
Emily Pawley, "The Nature of the Future: Agriculture, Science, and Capitalism in the Antebellum North" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
Aug 11, 2020
Emily Wallace, "Road Sides: An Illustrated Companion to Dining and Driving in the American South" (U Texas Press, 2019)
Jul 24, 2020
Virgie Tovar, "You Have the Right to Remain Fat" (Feminist Press, 2018)
Jul 15, 2020
Elizabeth A. Williams, "Appetite and Its Discontents: Science, Medicine, and the Urge to Eat, 1750-1950" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
Jul 15, 2020
Kregg Hetherington, "The Government of Beans: Regulating Life in the Age of Monocrops" (Duke UP, 2020)
Jul 14, 2020
Hanna Garth, "Food In Cuba: The Pursuit of a Decent Meal" (Stanford UP, 2020)
Jul 09, 2020
Kennan Ferguson, "Cookbooks Politics" (U Penn Press, 2020)
Jul 01, 2020
Candi K. Cann, "Dying to Eat: Cross Cultural Perspectives on Food, Death and the Afterlife" (UP of Kentucky, 2018)
Jul 01, 2020
D. Conley and J. Eckstein, "Cookery: Food Rhetorics and Social Production" (U Alabama Press, 2020)
Jun 30, 2020
Kathryn M. De Luna, "Collecting Food, Collecting People: Subsistence and Society in Central Africa" (Yale UP, 2016)
Jun 04, 2020
James C. Scott, "Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States" (Yale UP, 2017)
Jun 03, 2020
Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe" (Random House, 2020)
Jun 02, 2020
Katarzyna J. Cwiertka, "Branding Japan’s Food: From Meibutsu to Washoku" (U Hawaii Press, 2020)
May 29, 2020
E. Engelhardt and L. Smith, "The Food We Eat, the Stories We Tell: Contemporary Appalachian Table" (Ohio UP, 2019)
May 25, 2020
Louis A. Pérez, "Rice in the Time of Sugar: The Political Economy of Food in Cuba" (UNC Press, 2019)
May 19, 2020
Witold Szabłowski, "How to Feed a Dictator" (Penguin, 2020)
May 07, 2020
Mythri Jegathesan, "Tea and Solidarity: Tamil Women and Work in Postwar Sri Lanka" (U Washington Press, 2019)
May 05, 2020
Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
Apr 28, 2020
Phoebe Lickwar and Roxi Thoren, "Farmscape: The Design of Productive Landscapes" (Routledge, 2020)
Apr 21, 2020
David Lebovitz, "Drinking French" (Ten Speed Press, 2020)
Apr 14, 2020
Conor Picken and Matthew Dischinger, "Southern Comforts: Drinking and the US South" (LSU Press, 2020)
Apr 10, 2020
Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Paradoxes in Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy" (MIT Press, 2020)
Mar 30, 2020
Irina Georgescu, "Carpathia: Food from the Heart of Romania” (Interlink Books, 2020)
Mar 27, 2020
Karima Moyer-Nocchi, "The Eternal Table: A Cultural History of Food in Rome" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2019)
Mar 19, 2020
Jennifer E. Gaddis, "The Labor of Lunch: Why We Need Real Food and Real Jobs in American Public Schools" (U California Press, 2019)
Mar 06, 2020
Justin Nystrom, "Creole Italian: Sicilian Immigrants and the Shaping of New Orleans Food Culture" (U Georgia Press, 2018)
Mar 05, 2020
Darra Goldstein, "Beyond the North Wind: Russia in Recipes and Lore" (Random House, 2020)
Mar 04, 2020
Lana Dee Povitz, ​"Stirrings: How Activist New Yorkers Ignited a Movement for Food Justice" ​(UNC Press, 2019)
Mar 03, 2020
Emily E. LB. Twarog, "Politics of the Pantry: Housewives, Food, and Consumer Protest in Twentieth-Century America" (Oxford UP, 2017)
Feb 26, 2020
Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times” (Princeton UP, 2020)
Feb 25, 2020
K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alternative Academic Careers" (Stylus Publishing, 2020)
Jan 30, 2020
J. L. Anderson, "Capitalist Pigs: Pigs, Pork, and Power in America" (West Virginia UP, 2019)
Jan 21, 2020
Hillary Reinsberg, "Zagat 2020 New York City Restaurants: Special 40th Anniversary Edition" (Zagat, 2019)
Jan 06, 2020
Maria Veri and Rita Liberti, "Gridiron Gourmet: Gender and Food at the Football Tailgate" (U Arkansas Press, 2019)
Jan 03, 2020
Joshua Specht, "Red Meat Republic: A Hoof-to-Table History of How Beef Changed America" (Princeton UP, 2019)
Dec 30, 2019
A. R. Ruis, "Learning to Eat: The Origins of School Lunch in the United States" (Rutgers UP, 2017)
Dec 10, 2019
Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information" (Norton, 2019)
Dec 03, 2019
Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
Nov 03, 2019
Rachel Laudan, "Cuisine and Empire: Cooking in World History" (U California Press, 2015)
Oct 24, 2019
J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intellectuals, Introverts, and Nerds Who Want to Be Effective Teachers" (West Virginia UP, 2019)
Oct 24, 2019
Rafia Zafar, "Recipes for Respect: African American Meals and Meaning" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
Oct 11, 2019
Geoffrey Barstow, "Food of Sinful Demons: Meat, Vegetarianism, and the Limits of Buddhism in Tibet" (Columbia UP, 2018)
Oct 01, 2019
Ashanté M. Reese, "Black Food Geographies: Race, Self-Reliance, and Food Access in Washington, D.C." (UNC Press, 2019)
Sep 23, 2019
Jennifer Jensen Wallach, "What We Need Ourselves: How Food has Shaped African American Life" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2019)
Sep 18, 2019
Mark Winne, "Food Town USA: Seven Unlikely Cities that are Changing the Way We Eat" (Island Press, 2019)
Sep 12, 2019
Aaron Hale-Dorrell, "Corn Crusade: Khrushchev’s Farming Revolution in the Post-Stalin Soviet Union" (Oxford UP, 2018)
Sep 11, 2019
Carol J. Adams, "Burger" (Bloomsbury, 2018)
Aug 13, 2019
A. Lakhtikova, A. Brintlinger, and I. Glushchenko, "Seasoned Socialism: Gender and Food in Late Soviet Everyday Life" (Indiana UP, 2019)
Aug 01, 2019
Krishnendu Ray, "The Ethnic Restaurateur" (Bloomsbury, 2016)
Jul 31, 2019
David R. Montgomery, "Growing a Revolution: Bringing Our Soil Back to Life" (W. W. Norton, 2018)
Jul 26, 2019
Rachel B. Herrmann, "No Useless Mouth: Waging War and Fighting Hunger in the American Revolution" (Cornell UP, 2019)
Jul 22, 2019
Brian Haara, "Bourbon Justice: How Whiskey Law Shaped America" (Potomac Books, 2015)
Jul 17, 2019
Catherine Keyser, "Artificial Color: Modern Food and Racial Fictions" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Jul 15, 2019
Jeanette M. Fregulia, "A Rich and Tantalizing Brew: A History of How Coffee Connected the World" (U Arkansas Press, 2019))
Jun 26, 2019
John O'Brien, "States of Intoxication: The Place of Alcohol in Civilisation" (Routledge, 2018)
Jun 20, 2019
Veronica Hinke, "The Last Night on the Titanic: Unsinkable Drinking, Dining, and Style" (Regnery History, 2019)
May 30, 2019
Nico Slate, "Gandhi’s Search for the Perfect Diet: Eating with the World in Mind" (U Washington Press, 2019)
May 17, 2019
Kristin D. Phillips, "An Ethnography of Hunger: Politics, Subsistence, and the Unpredictable Grace of the Sun" (Indiana UP, 2018)
May 09, 2019
Stéphane Henaut and Jeni Mitchell, "A Bite-Sized History of France: Gastronomic Tales of Revolution, War, and Enlightenment" (The New Press, 2018)
Mar 25, 2019
Alex Colas et al., "Food, Politics, and Society Social Theory and the Modern Food System" (U California Press, 2018)
Mar 20, 2019
Discussion of Massive Online Peer Review and Open Access Publishing
Mar 19, 2019
Jodi Campbell, "At the First Table: Food and Social Identity in Early Modern Spain" (U Nebraska Press, 2017)
Jan 29, 2019
Nicholas Bauch, "Geography of Digestion: Biotechnology and the Kellogg Enterprise" (U California Press, 2017)
Jan 11, 2019
Margot Finn, "Discriminating Taste: How Class Anxiety Created the American Food Revolution" (Rutgers UP, 2017)
Dec 20, 2018
Stephan J. Guyenet, "The Hungry Brain: Outsmarting the Instincts That Make Us Overeat" (Flatiron Books, 2017)
Dec 19, 2018
Venus Bivar, “Organic Resistance: The Struggle over Industrial Farming in Postwar France” (UNC Press, 2018)
Oct 16, 2018
Benjamin R. Siegel, “Hungry Nation: Food, Famine, and the Making of Modern India” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Oct 05, 2018
Alyshia Gálvez, “Eating NAFTA: Trade, Food Policies, and the Destruction of Mexico” (U. California Press, 2018)
Sep 19, 2018
Shachar M. Pinsker, “A Rich Brew: How Cafés Created Modern Jewish Culture” (NYU Press, 2018)
Aug 06, 2018
Kelley Fanto Deetz, “Bound to the Fire: How Virginia’s Enslaved Cooks Helped Invent American Cuisine” (UP of Kentucky, 2017)
Jul 26, 2018
Norah MacKendrick, “Better Safe Than Sorry: How Consumers Navigate Exposure to Everyday Toxics” (U California Press, 2018).
Jul 19, 2018
Adrienne Rose Bitar, “Diet and the Disease of Civilization” (Rutgers UP, 2018)
Jul 17, 2018
Jeff Koelher, “Where the Wild Coffee Grows: The Untold Story of Coffee from the Cloud Forests of Ethiopia to Your Cup” (Bloomsbury, 2017)
Jul 02, 2018
Anna Zeide, “Canned: The Rise and Fall of Consumer Confidence in the American Food Industry” (U California Press, 2018)
Apr 16, 2018
Sean Sherman, “The Sioux Chef’s Indigenous Kitchen” (University of Minnesota Press, 2017)
Mar 22, 2018
Peter A. Kopp, “Hoptopia: A World of Agriculture and Beer in Oregon’s Willamette Valley” (U California Press, 2016)
Mar 09, 2018
Andrew Friedman, “Chefs, Drugs and Rock ‘n’ Roll” (Ecco Press, 2018)
Mar 05, 2018
D. Harris and P. Guiffre, “Taking the Heat: Women Chefs and Gender Inequality in the Professional Kitchen” (Rutgers UP, 2015)
Feb 22, 2018
Mark Padoongpatt, “Flavors of Empire: Food and the Making of Thai America” (U of California Press, 2017)
Feb 13, 2018
Johan Swinnen and Devin Briski, “Beeronomics: How Beer Explains the World” (Oxford UP, 2017)
Oct 31, 2017
Bryant Simon, “The Hamlet Fire: A Tragic Story of Cheap Food, Cheap Government, and Cheap Lives” (The New Press, 2017)
Oct 06, 2017
Andrew Smith, “Terror and Terroir: The Winegrowers of the Languedoc and Modern France” (Manchester University Press, 2016)
Oct 06, 2017
Nina Savelle-Rocklin, “Food for Thought: Perspectives on Eating Disorders” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017)
Sep 12, 2017
Faegheh Shirazi, “Brand Islam: The Marketing and Commodification of Piety” (U. Texas Press, 2016)
Sep 05, 2017
Alice Weinreb, “Modern Hungers: Food and Power in Twentieth-Century Germany” (Oxford UP, 2017)
Aug 13, 2017
Sophie Egan, “Devoured: How What We Eat Defines Who We Are” (William Morrow, 2017)
Jul 24, 2017
Michael W. Twitty, “The Cooking Gene: A Journey through African American Culinary History in the Old South” (Amistad, 2017)
Jun 19, 2017
Diana Kennedy, “Nothing Fancy: Recipes and Recollections of Soul-Satisfying Food” (U of Texas Press, 2016)
May 22, 2017
Demet Guzey, “Food on Foot: A History of Eating on Trails and in the Wild” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017)
May 14, 2017
Michaela DeSoucey, “Contested Tastes: Foie Gras and the Politics of Food” (Princeton UP, 2016)
Mar 25, 2017
Jordan D. Rosenblum, “The Jewish Dietary Laws in the Ancient World” (Cambridge UP, 2016)
Mar 09, 2017
David B. Goldstein and Amy L. Tigner, eds. “Culinary Shakespeare: Staging Food and Drink in Early Modern England” (Duquesne UP, 2016)
Dec 19, 2016
Christopher Woolgar, “The Culture of Food in England, 1200-1500” (Yale UP, 2016)
Sep 30, 2016
Amy Wright, “Cracker Sonnets” (BrickRoad Poetry Press, 2016)
Aug 18, 2016
Marta Zaraska, “Meathooked: The History and Science of our 2.5-Million-Year Obsession with Meat” (Basic Books, 2016)
Jul 05, 2016
Sarah Wald, “The Nature of California: Race, Citizenship, and Farming since the Dust Bowl” (U. of Washington Press, 2016)
Jun 28, 2016
Garrett M. Broad, “More Than Just Food: Food Justice and Community Change” (U of California Press, 2016)
May 13, 2016
Roger Horowitz, “Kosher USA: How Coke Became Kosher and Other Tales of Modern Food” (Columbia UP, 2016)
Apr 21, 2016
Jeff Koehler, “Darjeeling” (Bloomsbury, 2015)
Mar 31, 2016
Sarah Bowen, “Divided Spirits: Tequila, Mezcal, and the Politics of Production” (U of California Press, 2015)
Feb 06, 2016
Cindy R. Lobel, “Urban Appetites: Food and Culture in Nineteenth-Century New York” (U of Chicago Press, 2014)
Feb 06, 2016
Jamie Koufman, “Dr. Koufman’s Acid Reflux Diet” (Katalitix, 2015)
Feb 03, 2016
James A. Benn, “Tea in China: A Religious and Cultural History” (U of Hawaii Press, 2015)
Jan 04, 2016
Yael Raviv, “Falafel Nation: Cuisine and the Making of National Identity in Israel” (University of Nebraska Press, 2015)
Dec 17, 2015
Francesca Bray et al.,eds., “Rice: Global Networks and New Histories” (Cambridge UP, 2015)
Dec 14, 2015
Ted Merwin, “Pastrami on Rye: An Overstuffed History of the Jewish Deli” (NYU Press, 2015)
Dec 14, 2015
Anna L. Tsing, “The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins” (Princeton UP, 2015)
Dec 06, 2015
Matthew Gavin Frank, “The Mad Feast: An Ecstatic Tour through America’s Food” (Liveright, 2015)
Nov 29, 2015
Tom Jackson, “Chilled: How Refrigeration Changed the World and Might Do So Again” (Bloomsbury, 2015)
Aug 19, 2015
Josh Kun, “To Live and Dine in L.A.: Menus and the Making of the Modern City” (Angel City Press, 2015)
Jun 02, 2015
Reid Mitenbuler, “Bourbon Empire: The Past and Future of America’s Whiskey” (Viking, 2015)
May 18, 2015
Tom Hertweck, “Food on Film” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2014)
Apr 26, 2015
Eugene N. Anderson, “Food and Environment in Early and Medieval China” (U of Pennsylvania Press, 2014)
Mar 15, 2015
Sarah Besky, “The Darjeeling Distinction: Labor and Justice on Fair-Trade Plantations in India” (U of California Press, 2014)
Jan 14, 2015
Laura Silver, “Knish: In Search of the Jewish Soul Food” (Brandeis University Press, 2014)
Apr 26, 2014
Leona Rittner, W. Scott Haine, and Jeffrey H. Jackson, eds. “The Thinking Space” (Ashgate, 2013)
Mar 27, 2014
Allen Salkin “From Scratch: Inside the Food Network” (Putnam, 2013)
Oct 05, 2013
Marlene Zuk, “Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us about Sex, Diet, and How We Live” (Norton, 2013)
Apr 22, 2013
E. C. Spary, “Eating the Enlightenment: Food and the Sciences in Paris, 1670-1760” (University of Chicago Press, 2012)
Feb 18, 2013
Barak Kushner, “Slurp!: A Social and Culinary History of Ramen – Japan’s Favorite Noodle Soup” (Global Oriental, 2012)
Dec 20, 2012
Signe Rousseau, “Food and Social Media: You Are What You Tweet” (AltaMira Press, 2012)
Dec 13, 2012
William Kerrigan, “Johnny Appleseed and the American Orchard: A Cultural History” (Johns Hopkins, 2012)
Nov 18, 2012
Bob Spitz, “Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child” (Knopf, 2012)
Nov 14, 2012
Catherine Higgs, “Chocolate Islands: Cocoa, Slavery, and Colonial Africa” (Ohio University Press, 2012)
Nov 14, 2012
John S. Allen, “The Omnivorous Mind: Our Evolving Relationship to Food” (Harvard University Press, 2012)
Oct 23, 2012
Andrew P. Haley, "Turning the Tables: Restaurants and the Rise of the American Middle Class, 1880-1920" (UNC Press, 2011)
Sep 07, 2012
Roel Sterckx, “Food, Sacrifice, and Sagehood in Early China” (Cambridge UP, 2011)
Aug 11, 2012
Merry White, “Coffee Life in Japan” (University of California Press, 2012)
Jun 15, 2012
Orla Ryan, “Chocolate Nations: Living and Dying for Cocoa in West Africa” (Zed Books, 2011)
Apr 27, 2012
Cecilia Leong-Salobir, “Food Culture in Colonial Asia: A Taste of Empire” (Routledge, 2011)
Sep 13, 2011
Eric Rath, “Food and Fantasy in Early Modern Japan” (University of California Press, 2010)
Aug 04, 2011
Danyelle Freeman, “Try This: Traveling the Globe without Leaving the Table” (Ecco, 2011)
Jun 14, 2011