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Emily Wallace, “Road Sides: An Illustrated Companion to Dining and Driving in the American South” (U Texas Press, 2019)

Emily Wallace
Road Sides
An Illustrated Companion to Dining and Driving in the American South
University of Texas Press, 2019

New Books in American Studies New Books in Art New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Food New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Popular Culture New Books in the American South July 24, 2020 Carrie Helms Tippen

In this this interview, Carrie Tippen talks with Emily Wallace, author and illustrator of the new book Road Sides: An Illustrated Companion to Dining and Driving in the American South (University of Texas Press, 2019). Road Sides pays homage to popular travel guides with its short chapters, one for each... Read More

Virgie Tovar
You Have the Right to Remain Fat

Feminist Press, 2018

New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Food New Books in Gender Studies New Books in Politics & Society July 15, 2020 Christina Gessler

Growing up as a fat girl, Virgie Tovar believed that her body was something to be fixed. But after two decades of dieting and constant guilt, she was over it―and gave herself the freedom to trust her own body again. Ever since, she’s been helping others to do the same.... Read More

Elizabeth A. Williams, “Appetite and Its Discontents: Science, Medicine, and the Urge to Eat, 1750-1950” (U Chicago Press, 2020)

Elizabeth A. Williams
Appetite and Its Discontents
Science, Medicine, and the Urge to Eat, 1750-1950
University of Chicago Press, 2020

New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Food New Books in History New Books in Medicine New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Science & Technology New Books in Science, Technology, and Society New Books Network July 15, 2020 Claire Clark

Why do we eat? Is it instinct? Despite the necessity of food, anxieties about what and how to eat are widespread and persistent. In Appetite and Its Discontents: Science, Medicine, and the Urge to Eat, 1750-1950 (University of Chicago Press, 2020), Elizabeth A. Williams explores contemporary worries about eating through... Read More

Kregg Hetherington, “The Government of Beans: Regulating Life in the Age of Monocrops” (Duke UP, 2020)

Kregg Hetherington
The Government of Beans
Regulating Life in the Age of Monocrops
Duke University Press, 2020

New Books in Anthropology New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Environmental Studies New Books in Food New Books in Latin American Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Political Science New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Science & Technology July 14, 2020 Aparna Gopalan

By the time Bolivian President Evo Morales was deposed in December 2019, it had become increasingly clear that Latin America’s Pink Tide – the wave of left-leaning, anti-poverty governments which took hold of the region in the mid-2000s – was fast receding. Many have attempted to explain the rise and... Read More

Hanna Garth, “Food In Cuba: The Pursuit of a Decent Meal” (Stanford UP, 2020)

Hanna Garth
Food In Cuba
The Pursuit of a Decent Meal
Stanford University Press, 2020

New Books in Anthropology New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Caribbean Studies New Books in Food New Books in Latin American Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society July 9, 2020 Reighan Gillam

In Food In Cuba: The Pursuit of a Decent Meal (Stanford University Press, 2020), Hanna Garth examines the processes of acquiring food and preparing meals in the midst of food shortages. Garth draws our attention to the social, cultural, and historical factors Cuban’s draw upon to define an appropriate or decent meal and... Read More

Kennan Ferguson, “Cookbook Politics” (U Penn Press, 2020)

Kennan Ferguson
Cookbook Politics

University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020

New Books in American Studies New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Food New Books in History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Political Science New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Popular Culture July 1, 2020 Lilly Goren

Many of us have stacks of cookbooks on our shelves, which we look through for ideas and inspiration, or to transport us to distant places with different foods, smells, experiences, and sometimes memories of our visits. Kennan Ferguson, Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, argues that there... Read More

Candi K. Cann, “Dying to Eat: Cross Cultural Perspectives on Food, Death and the Afterlife” (UP of Kentucky, 2018)

Candi K. Cann
Dying to Eat
Cross Cultural Perspectives on Food, Death and the Afterlife
University Press of Kentucky, 2018

New Books in Anthropology New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Food New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Religion New Books in Religion & Faith New Books Network July 1, 2020 Carrie Helms Tippen

In this this interview, Carrie Tippen talks with Candi K. Cann, editor of the new collection, Dying to Eat: Cross Cultural Perspectives on Food, Death and the Afterlife (University Press of Kentucky). Dying to Eat is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that examine the role of food in rituals surrounding... Read More

D. Conley and J. Eckstein, “Cookery: Food Rhetorics and Social Production” (U Alabama Press, 2020)

D. Conley and J. Eckstein
Cookery
Food Rhetorics and Social Production
University of Alabama Press, 2020

New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Communications New Books in Food New Books in Language New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Sociology June 30, 2020 Lee Pierce

On this episode of the New Books Network, Dr. Lee Pierce (s/t) interviews editors Donovan Conley and Justin Eckstein about their new book Cookery: Food Rhetorics and Social Production (University of Alabama Press, 2020), which explores the rhetoric of contemporary food production and consumption with a focus on social boundaries.... Read More

Kathryn M. De Luna, “Collecting Food, Collecting People: Subsistence and Society in Central Africa” (Yale UP, 2016)

Kathryn M. De Luna
Collecting Food, Collecting People
Subsistence and Society in Central Africa
Yale University Press, 2019

New Books in African Studies New Books in Anthropology New Books in Archaeology New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Food New Books in History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network June 4, 2020 Paul Bjerk

In Collecting Food, Collecting People: Subsistence and Society in Central Africa (Yale University Press, 2016), Kathryn M. De Luna documents the evolving meanings borne in the collection of wild foods for an agricultural people in south central Africa around the turn of the first millennium. It is a history of everyday life... Read More