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Katarzyna J. Cwiertka, “Branding Japan’s Food: From Meibutsu to Washoku” (U Hawaii Press, 2020)

Katarzyna J. Cwiertka
Branding Japan’s Food
From Meibutsu to Washoku
University of Hawaii Press, 2020

New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in East Asian Studies New Books in Food New Books in Peoples & Places New Books Network May 29, 2020 Nathan Hopson

Katarzyna J. Cwiertka and Yasuhara Miho’s Branding Japan’s Food: From Meibutsu to Washoku (University of Hawaii Press, 2020) explores historical and contemporary practices of place branding through food in Japan. The book’s narrative centers on the event that precipitated its writing, namely, the 2013 addition of “Washoku, traditional dietary cultures... Read More

E. Engelhardt and L. Smith, “The Food We Eat, the Stories We Tell: Contemporary Appalachian Table” (Ohio UP, 2019)

Elizabeth Engelhardt and Lora Smith
The Food We Eat, the Stories We Tell
Contemporary Appalachian Tables
Ohio University Press, 2019

New Books in American Studies 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 New Books Network May 25, 2020 Carrie Helms Tippen

In this this interview, Carrie Tippen talks with Elizabeth Engelhardt, co-editor of the new collection The Food We Eat, the Stories We Tell: Contemporary Appalachian Tables (Ohio University Press, 2019), also edited by Lora Smith and published by Ohio University Press. We are also joined by Courtney Balestier who is... Read More

Louis A. Pérez
Rice in the Time of Sugar
The Political Economy of Food in Cuba
UNC Press, 2019

New Books in American Studies New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Caribbean Studies New Books in Food New Books in History New Books in Latin American Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society May 19, 2020 Sharika Crawford

In his book, Rice in the Time of Sugar: The Political Economy of Food in Cuba (UNC Press, 2019), Louis A. Pérez, Jr. explores how Cuba’s dependency on the sugar economy also made the island’s population dependent on food imports like rice. Despite efforts to diversify agricultural production and produce rice... Read More

Witold Szabłowski, “How to Feed a Dictator” (Penguin, 2020)

Witold Szabłowski
How to Feed a Dictator
Saddam Hussein, Idi Amin, Enver Hoxha, Fidel Castro, and Pol Pot Through the Eyes of Their Cooks
Penguin, 2020

New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Food New Books in Political Science New Books in Politics New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network May 7, 2020 Allen Salkin

If you’re a despot, there are two people you can’t lie to, your doctor and your chef. This is one of the nuggets explained to me by Witold Szabłowski, author of How to Feed a Dictator: Saddam Hussein, Idi Amin, Enver Hoxha, Fidel Castro, and Pol Pot Through the Eyes of... Read More

Mythri Jegathesan, “Tea and Solidarity: Tamil Women and Work in Postwar Sri Lanka” (U Washington Press, 2019)

Mythri Jegathesan
Tea & Solidarity
Tamil Women & Work in Postwar Sri Lanka
University of Washington Press, 2019

New Books in Anthropology New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Food New Books in Gender Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Sociology New Books in South Asian Studies New Books Network May 5, 2020 Mythri Jegathesan

In recent years, commodity chain analysis – the scholarly effort to piece together the production and consumption ends of various commodities – has really taken off. For goods ranging from cotton to coffee & tobacco to tea, scholars have brought cultivators and laborers into the same frame as factory workers,... Read More

Phoebe Lickwar and Roxi Thoren
Farmscape
The Design of Productive Landscapes
Routledge, 2020

New Books in Architecture New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Environmental Studies New Books in Food New Books in Science & Technology New Books Network April 21, 2020 Tricia Keffer

Phoebe Lickwar and Roxi Thoren‘s book Farmscape: The Design of Productive Landscapes (Routledge, 2020) situates agriculture as a design practice, using a wide range of international case studies and analytical essays to propose lessons for contemporary landscape architects who are interested in integrating agriculture into their designs. Agricultural processes, technologies,... Read More

David Lebovitz, “Drinking French” (Ten Speed Press, 2020)

David Lebovitz
Drinking French
The Iconic Cocktails, Apéritifs, and Café Traditions of France, with 160 Recipes
Ten Speed Press, 2002

New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Food New Books in French Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books Network April 14, 2020 Jennifer Eremeeva

Few experiences can top sitting in a Parisian cafe and watching the world go by, a glass of something at your elbow. But if you’ve ever gone inside the cafe and confronted the battalion of beautiful bottles behind the bar, you may have come to the reluctant conclusion that there... Read More

Conor Picken and Matthew Dischinger
Southern Comforts
Drinking and the US South
LSU Press, 2020

New Books in American Studies New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Drugs, Addiction and Recovery New Books in Food New Books in Literary Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in the American South New Books Network April 10, 2020 Carrie Tippen

In this this interview, Carrie Tippen talks with Conor Picken and Matthew Dischinger about their edited collection, Southern Comforts: Drinking and the US South from Louisiana State University Press’s Southern Literary Studies Series. This collection of seventeen essays focuses on the mythologies and representations of alcohol production, distribution, and consumption... Read More