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Jessica Martell, “Farm to Form: Modernist Literature and Ecologies of Food in the British Empire” (U Nevada Press, 2020)

Jessica Martell
Farm to Form
Modernist Literature and Ecologies of Food in the British Empire
University of Nevada Press, 2020

New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in British Studies New Books in Food New Books in Literary Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books Network October 1, 2020 Carrie Helms Tippen

In this this interview, Carrie Tippen talks with Jessica Martell about her new book, Farm to Form: Modernist Literature and Ecologies of Food in the British Empire, published in 2020 by University of Nevada Press for their Cultural Ecologies of Food series. In Farm to Form, Martell contextualizes some familiar... Read More

Brian R. Dott, “The Chile Pepper in China: A Cultural Biography” (Columbia UP, 2020)

Brian R. Dott
The Chile Pepper in China
A Cultural Biography
Columbia University Press, 2020

New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Chinese Studies New Books in East Asian Studies New Books in Food New Books in History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society September 23, 2020 Joshua Tham

In China, chiles are everywhere. From dried peppers hanging from eaves to Mao’s boast that revolution would be impossible without chiles, Chinese culture and the chile pepper have been intertwined for centuries. Yet, this was not always the case. In The Chile Pepper in China: A Cultural Biography (Columbia University... Read More

Lauren F. Klein, “An Archive of Taste: Race and Eating in the Early United States” (U Minnesota Press, 2020)

Lauren F. Klein
An Archive of Taste
Race and Eating in the Early United States
University of Minnesota Press, 2020

New Books in African American Studies New Books in American Studies New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Food New Books in Literary Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Popular Culture August 24, 2020 Diana DePasquale

There is no eating in the archive. This is not only a practical admonition to any would-be researcher but also a methodological challenge, in that there is no eating—or, at least, no food—preserved among the printed records of the early United States. Synthesizing a range of textual artifacts with accounts... Read More

K. Keeling and S. Pollard, “Table Lands: Food in Children’s Literature” (U Mississippi Press, 2020)

Kara Keeling and Scott Pollard
Table Lands
Food in Children's Literature
University of Mississippi Press, 2020

New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Food New Books in Literary Studies August 14, 2020 Carrie Tippen

In this this interview, Carrie Tippen talks Kara Keeling and Scott Pollard about their new book, Table Lands: Food in Children’s Literature, published June 2020 by University of Mississippi Press. Table Lands contributes to a growing body of scholarship in the subfield of literary food studies, which combines the methods... Read More

Emily Pawley, “The Nature of the Future: Agriculture, Science, and Capitalism in the Antebellum North” (U Chicago Press, 2020)

Emily Pawley
The Nature of the Future
Agriculture, Science, and Capitalism in the Antebellum North
University of Chicago Press, 2020

New Books in American Studies New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Environmental Studies New Books in Food New Books in History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Science & Technology New Books in Science, Technology, and Society August 11, 2020 Brian Hamilton

The nostalgic mist surrounding farms can make it hard to write their history, encrusting them with stereotypical rural virtues and unrealistically separating them from markets, capitalism, and urban influences. The Nature of the Future: Agriculture, Science, and Capitalism in the Antebellum North (University Of Chicago Press) aims to remake this... Read More

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