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Food June 29, 2022

Edible Insects

A Global History

Gina Louise Hunter

Hosted by Amir Sayadabdi
From grasshoppers to grubs, an eye-opening look at insect cuisine around the world. An estimated two billion people worldwide regularly consume insects, yet bugs are rarely eaten in the West …

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Italian Studies June 23, 2022

Pasta, Pizza and Propaganda

A Political History of Italian Food TV

Francesco Buscemi

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
The three protagonists of Pasta, Pizza and Propaganda: A Political History of Italian Food TV (Intellect, 2022) are food, television and politics. These are the three main characters that interrelate …
Food June 22, 2022

Food Instagram

Identity, Influence, and Negotiation

Emily J. H. Contois and Zenia Kish

Hosted by Amir Sayadabdi
Image by image and hashtag by hashtag, Instagram has redefined the ways we relate to food. Emily J. H. Contois and Zenia Kish edit contributions that explore the massively popular …
Latino Studies June 17, 2022

A Place at the Nayarit

How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community

Natalia Molina

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
In 1951, Doña Natalia Barraza opened the Nayarit, a Mexican restaurant in Echo Park, Los Angeles. With A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community (U California …
On Religion June 17, 2022

On Religion, Food, and Eating in America

A Discussion with Nora Rubel and Ben Zeller

Nora Rubel and Ben Zeller

Hosted by Gregory Soden
Dr. Nora Rubel is the Jane and Alan Batkin Professor of Jewish Studies and Chair of the Department of Religion and Classics at the University of Rochester in New York …
On Religion June 16, 2022

On Buddhism, Adventures, and Cooking Ethics

A Discussion with Eric Ripert

Eric Ripert

Hosted by Gregory Soden
Eric Ripert is chef and co-owner of Le Bernardin on 7th Avenue in Manhattan’s Theater District, author of the autobiography 32 Yolks: From My Mother’s Table to Working the Line …
Disability Studies June 10, 2022

Food Allergy Advocacy

Parenting and the Politics of Care

Danya Glabau

Hosted by Autumn Wilke
A detailed exploration of parents' fight for a safe environment for their kids, interrogating how race, class, and gender shape health advocacy The success of food allergy activism in highlighting …
Sociology June 3, 2022

School Farms

Feeding and Educating Children

Alshimaa Aboelmakarem Farag, Samaa Badawi, and Gurpinder Lalli

Hosted by Rituparna Patgiri
School Farms: Feeding and Educating Children (Routledge, 2021) highlights the potential of school farms to fight hunger and malnutrition by providing access to locally produced, fresh, and healthy food as …
Economic and Business History May 31, 2022

Building a Housewife's Paradise

Gender, Politics, and American Grocery Stores in the Twentieth Century

Tracey Deutsch

Hosted by Paula De La Cruz-Fernández
The title of the book that we are introducing today is Building a Housewife's Paradise Gender, Politics, and American Grocery Stores in the Twentieth Century. This is not a new …
Environmental Studies May 30, 2022

Economic Poisoning

Industrial Waste and the Chemicalization of American Agriculture

Adam M. Romero

Hosted by Eyad Houssami
The toxicity of pesticides to the environment and humans is often framed as an unfortunate effect of their benefits to agricultural production. In Economic Poisoning: Industrial Waste and the Chemicalization …
Anthropology May 30, 2022

Genetically Modified Democracy

Transgenic Crops in Contemporary India

Aniket Aga

Hosted by Sneha Annavarapu
How the debate over genetically modified crops in India is transforming science and politics. Genetically modified or transgenic crops are controversial across the world. Advocates see such crops as crucial …
High Theory May 30, 2022

Modernist Mushrooms

A Discussion with Shalini Sengupta

Shalini Sengupta

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Shalini Sengupta thinks together ‘the mycological turn’ in the humanities and the narrative and aesthetic work that mushrooms do in some modernist literature. She draws from Anna Tsing’s The Mushroom …
Food May 23, 2022

Healing Grounds

Climate, Justice, and the Deep Roots of Regenerative Farming

Liz Carlisle

Hosted by Susan Grelock-Yusem
A powerful movement is happening in farming today—farmers are reconnecting with their roots to fight climate change. For one woman, that’s meant learning her tribe’s history to help bring back …
General History May 23, 2022

Oceans of Grain

How American Wheat Remade the World

Scott Reynolds Nelson

Hosted by Albert Zambone
Grain traders wandering across the steppe; the Russian conquest of Ukraine (in the 18th century, that is); boulevard barons and wheat futures; railroads; the first fast food breakfast; and war …
Environmental Studies May 23, 2022

Lives of Weeds

Opportunism, Resistance, Folly

John Cardina

Hosted by Mohamed Gamal-Eldin
Lives of Weeds: Opportunism, Resistance, Folly (Comstock Publishing, 2021) explores the tangled history of weeds and their relationship to humans. Through eight interwoven stories, John Cardina offers a fresh perspective …
Japanese Studies May 4, 2022

A Bowl for a Coin

A Commodity History of Japanese Tea

William Wayne Farris

Hosted by Jingyi Li
A Bowl for a Coin: A Commodity History of Japanese Tea (U Hawaii Press, 2019) is the first book in any language to describe and analyze the history of all Japanese …
Environmental Studies May 3, 2022

The Long Land War

The Global Struggle for Occupancy Rights

Jo Guldi

Hosted by Brian Hamilton
Jo Guldi tells the story of a global struggle to bring food, water, and shelter to all. Land is shown to be a central motor of politics in the twentieth …
Food May 2, 2022

Experimental Dining

Performance, Experience and Ideology in Contemporary Creative Restaurants

Paul Geary

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
Dr. Paul Geary’s Experimental Dining: Performance, Experience and Ideology in Contemporary Creative Restaurants (Intellect, 2022) examines the work of four of the world’s leading creative restaurants: Noma, elBulli, The Fat …
Public Policy April 22, 2022

The Fundamental Institution

Poverty, Social Welfare, and Agriculture in American Poor Farms

Megan Birk

Hosted by Stephen Pimpare
By the early 1900s, the poor farm had become a ubiquitous part of America's social welfare system. Megan Birk's history of this foundational but forgotten institution focuses on the connection …
General History April 15, 2022

Black Earth, White Bread

A Technopolitical History of Russian Agriculture and Food

Susanne A. Wengle

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
In Black Earth, White Bread: A Technopolitical History of Russian Agriculture and Food (University of Wisconsin Press, 2022), Dr. Susanne A. Wengle shows how agrotechnology served—and undermined—Soviet and Russian political …