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Food
January 13, 2021
Let's Ask Marion
What You Need to Know about the Politics of Food, Nutrition, and Health
Marion Nestle and Kerry Trueman
Hosted by Carrie Helms Tippen
Marion Nestle describes her new book as “a small, quick and dirty reader for the general audience” summarizing some of her biggest and most influential works. Let’s Ask Marion: What …
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Food
January 11, 2021
Food Insecurity on Campus
Action and Intervention
Katharine M. Broton and Clare L. Cady
Hosted by Carrie Helms Tippen
The new essay collection Food Insecurity on College Campuses edited by Katharine M. Broton and Clare L. Cady explores the widespread problem of food insecurity among college students and the …
Van Leer Institute Series on Ideas with Renee Garfinkel
December 4, 2020
Ladders to Heaven
How Figs Shaped our History, Fed our Imaginations, and can Enrich our Future
Mike Shanahan
Hosted by Renee Garfinkel
They are trees of life and trees of knowledge. They are wish-fulfillers … rainforest royalty … more precious than gold. They are the fig trees, and they have affected humanity …
Animal Studies
December 3, 2020
Why Vegan?
Eating Ethically
Peter Singer
Hosted by Mark Molloy
Even before the publication of his seminal Animal Liberation in 1975, Peter Singer, one of the greatest moral philosophers of our time, unflinchingly challenged the ethics of eating animals. Now …
Geography
November 24, 2020
Seeds of Power
Environmental Injustice and Genetically Modified Soybeans in Argentina
Amalia Leguizamón
Hosted by Stentor Danielson
In 1996 Argentina adopted genetically modified (GM) soybeans as a central part of its national development strategy. Today, Argentina is the third largest global grower and exporter of GM crops …
Food
November 19, 2020
Diners, Dudes, and Diets
How Gender and Power Collide in Food Media and Culture
Emily J. H. Contois
Hosted by Carrie Helms Tippen
In Diners, Dudes, and Diets: How Gender and Power Collide in Food Media and Culture (UNC Press, 2020), Emily Contois argues that the figure of The Dude was invented (or …
Food
November 9, 2020
Sacred Cows and Chicken Manchurian
The Everyday Politics of Eating Meat in India
James Staples
Hosted by Sneha Annavarapu
Bovine politics exposes fault lines within contemporary Indian society, where eating beef is simultaneously a violation of sacred taboos, an expression of marginalized identities, and a route to cosmopolitan sophistication …
SSEAC Stories
November 5, 2020
Improving Food Security in Laos and Cambodia
A Farmer’s Perspective with Associate Professor Russell Bush
Russell Bush
Hosted by Natali Pearson
Southeast Asia's demand for protein in the form of animal meat is increasing by more than 4% every year. This has important consequences for regional food security and household incomes …
Food
October 1, 2020
Farm to Form
Modernist Literature and Ecologies of Food in the British Empire
Jessica Martell
Hosted by 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 202 …
Food
September 23, 2020
The Chile Pepper in China
A Cultural Biography
Brian R. Dott
Hosted by 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 …
Food
August 24, 2020
An Archive of Taste
Race and Eating in the Early United States
Lauren F. Klein
Hosted by Diana De Pasquale
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 …
Food
August 14, 2020
Table Lands
Food in Children's Literature
Kara Keeling and Scott Pollard
Hosted by Carrie Helms 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 …
Food
August 11, 2020
The Nature of the Future
Agriculture, Science, and Capitalism in the Antebellum North
Emily Pawley
Hosted by 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 …
Art
July 24, 2020
Road Sides
An Illustrated Companion to Dining and Driving in the American South
Emily Wallace
Hosted by 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 …
Food
July 15, 2020
You Have the Right to Remain Fat
Virgie Tovar
Hosted by 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 …
Food
July 15, 2020
Appetite and Its Discontents
Science, Medicine, and the Urge to Eat, 1750-1950
Elizabeth A. Williams
Hosted by 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 …
Food
July 14, 2020
The Government of Beans
Regulating Life in the Age of Monocrops
Kregg Hetherington
Hosted by 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 …
Food
July 9, 2020
Food In Cuba
The Pursuit of a Decent Meal
Hanna Garth
Hosted by 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 …
Food
July 1, 2020
Cookbook Politics
Kennan Ferguson
Hosted by 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 …
Food
July 1, 2020
Dying to Eat
Cross Cultural Perspectives on Food, Death and the Afterlife
Candi K. Cann
Hosted by 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 …
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