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Rafia Zafar, “Recipes for Respect: African American Meals and Meaning” (U Georgia Press, 2019)
Rafia Zafar
Recipes for Respect
African American Meals and Meaning
University of Georgia Press, 2019

New Books in African American StudiesNew Books in American StudiesNew Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in FoodNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in the American SouthNew Books Network October 11, 2019 Carrie Helms Tippen

In this this interview, Dr. Carrie Tippen talks with Rafia Zafar about her 2019 book Recipes for Respect: African American Meals and Meaning, from the University of Georgia Press. It’s part of the Southern Foodways Alliance Studies in Culture, People and Place series. The book contains 7 chapters, covering the... Read More
Geoffrey Barstow, “Food of Sinful Demons: Meat, Vegetarianism, and the Limits of Buddhism in Tibet” (Columbia UP, 2018)
Geoffrey Barstow
Food of Sinful Demons
Meat, Vegetarianism, and the Limits of Buddhism in Tibet
Columbia University Press, 2018

New Books in AnthropologyNew Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in Buddhist StudiesNew Books in East Asian StudiesNew Books in FoodNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books Network October 1, 2019 Sangseraima Ujeed

Tibetan Buddhism teaches compassion toward all beings, a category that explicitly includes animals. Slaughtering animals is morally problematic at best and, at worst, completely incompatible with a religious lifestyle. Yet historically most Tibetans—both monastic and lay—have made meat a regular part of their diet. In Food of Sinful Demons: Meat,... Read More
Ashanté M. Reese, “Black Food Geographies: Race, Self-Reliance, and Food Access in Washington, D.C.” (UNC Press, 2019)
Ashanté M. Reese
Black Food Geographies
Race, Self-Reliance, and Food Access in Washington, D.C.
University of North Carolina Press, 2019

New Books in African American StudiesNew Books in American StudiesNew Books in AnthropologyNew Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in FoodNew Books in GeographyNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network September 23, 2019 Reighan Gillam

Black Food Geographies: Race, Self-Reliance, and Food Access in Washington, D.C. (University of North Carolina Press, 2019), by Ashanté M. Reese, examines the ways in which residents of the Deanwood neighborhood navigate the surrounding area to acquire food. Reese examines the historical processes that gave rise to the decrease of... Read More
Jennifer Jensen Wallach, “What We Need Ourselves: How Food Has Shaped African American Life” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2019)
Jennifer Jensen Wallach
What We Need Ourselves
How Food Has Shaped African American Life
Rowman & Littlefield, 2019

New Books in African American StudiesNew Books in African StudiesNew Books in American StudiesNew Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in FoodNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network September 18, 2019 Carrie Helms Tippen

In this this interview, Dr. Carrie Tippen talks with Jennifer Jensen Wallach about the her book Getting What We Need Ourselves: How Food Has Shaped African American Life (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019). The book covers a wide chronology and geography from the continent of Africa pre-Transatlantic slave trade to lunch... Read More
Mark Winne, “Food Town USA: Seven Unlikely Cities that are Changing the Way We Eat” (Island Press, 2019)
Mark Winne
Food Town USA
Seven Unlikely Cities that are Changing the Way We Eat
Island Press, 2019

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in FoodNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Public PolicyNew Books in SociologyNew Books Network September 12, 2019 Michael O. Johnston

Cities are extremely complex institutions to understand and are continually changing. A central place to make sense of the complexities of a city is the food that is grown and sold in these areas.  Mark Winne, author of Food Town USA: Seven Unlikely Cities that are Changing the Way We... Read More
Aaron Hale-Dorrell, “Corn Crusade: Khrushchev’s Farming Revolution in the Post-Stalin Soviet Union” (Oxford UP, 2018)
Aaron Hale-Dorrell
Corn Crusade
Khrushchev’s Farming Revolution in the Post-Stalin Soviet Union
Oxford University Press, 2018

New Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in FoodNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Russian and Eurasian StudiesNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books Network September 11, 2019 Samantha Lomb

In Corn Crusade: Khrushchev’s Farming Revolution in the Post-Stalin Soviet Union (Oxford University Press, 2018), Aaron Hale-Dorrell re-evaluates Khrushchev’s corn campaign as the cornerstone of his reformation programs. Corn was key to Khrushchev’s promises of providing everyone with the abundance required for achieving communism, which included the introduction of a... Read More
Carol J. Adams, “Burger” (Bloomsbury, 2018)
Carol J. Adams
Burger

Bloomsbury Academic, 2018

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in Environmental StudiesNew Books in FoodNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Popular CultureNew Books in Science & Technology August 13, 2019 Carrie Helms Tippen

In this this interview, Dr. Carrie Tippen talks with Carol J. Adams about two new books: Burger, from the Object Lessons series by Bloomsbury (2018), and Protest Kitchen, a cookbook with over 50 vegan recipes and practical daily actions from Conari press. Both books were published in 2018. Audiences probably... Read More