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Food
Interview with authors and scholars about books on food and the culinary arts.
March 16, 2026
Snack
In the hierarchy of foods, snacks are deemed trivial – perhaps even childish – especially in contrast to meals, which are seen as substantial and nece…
March 7, 2026
People of the Wheat
If you’ve ever wondered where your wheat flour is coming from, who is milling it (and how), or how it came to be such an important staple, then this e…
March 3, 2026
Wheat at War
The battlefields were not the only places that threatened death during World War I. As conflict raged on and supply lines tightened, the allied powers…
March 2, 2026
Boiling Point
Every other movie seems to be touted as a “tour de force”--but Philip Barantini’s 2021 look at ninety minutes in the life of a chef and everyone aroun…
February 22, 2026
Spoiled
Why is cows' milk, which few nonwhite people can digest, promoted as a science-backed dietary necessity in countries where the majority of the populat…
February 21, 2026
Food, Justice, and Animals
How would we eat if animals had rights? A standard assumption is that our food systems would be plant-based. But maybe we should reject this assumptio…
February 20, 2026
Good and Bad Palm Oil
Entangled in a nexus of commerce, industry, food security, and environmental concerns, palm oil has become a prominent topic of controversy and debate…
February 14, 2026
Food Justice Undone
Food justice activists have worked to increase access to healthy food in low-income communities of color across the United States. Yet despite their b…
February 13, 2026
Digestive Belonging, Trans-Species Sensing & Care in America’s Dairyland
In this episode, we speak with Assistant Professor of Environmental Humanities at the University of Copenhagen, Katy Overstreet. Katy is coordinator f…
February 12, 2026
The Making of the Modern Supermarket
What seems mundane today—walking into a supermarket, picking up goods, and paying at a checkout—was once a radical experiment. In our latest New Books…
January 31, 2026
Italian Dumplings and Chinese Pizzas
Italian Dumplings and Chinese Pizzas: Transcultural Food Mobilities (Fordham UP, 2025) by Dr. Gaoheng Zhang designs a novel analytical framework to ap…
January 23, 2026
Food Justice Undone
Food justice activists have worked to increase access to healthy food in low-income communities of color across the United States. Yet despite their b…
January 21, 2026
Sweet Excess
Sweet Excess: Crafting Mishti in Bengal (Routledge, 2025) by Ishita Dey is an ethnographic work on excess. Based on a decade-long fieldwork of a singl…
January 20, 2026
One Cheese to Rule Them All
Are you a Comté connoisseur or does your heart belong to Rogue River Blue? Can you tell your Brie from your Camembert? Can you name an award-winning I…
January 19, 2026
Taco
Taco (Bloomsbury, 2025) is a deep dive into the most iconic Mexican food from the perspective of a Mexico City native. In a narrative that moves from …
January 18, 2026
Globalizing the Soybean
Ines Prodöhl’s Globalizing the Soybean: Fat, Feed, and Sometimes Food, c. 1900-1950 (Routledge, 2023) is a history of how, why, and where the soybean …
January 14, 2026
Staple to Superfood
Sweet potatoes were among the American crops Christopher Columbus brought back to Europe—where they were thought to be an aphrodisiac. In China, this …
December 31, 2025
US History in 15 Foods
From whiskey in the American Revolution to Spam in WWII, food reveals a great deal about the society in which it exists. Selecting 15 foods that repre…
December 30, 2025
Bottled
Travel to virtually any African country and you are likely to find a Coca-Cola, often a cold one at that. Bottled asks how this carbonated drink becam…
December 29, 2025
Breakfast Cereal
Breakfast Cereal: A Global History (Reaktion, 2023) by Dr. Kathryn Dolan presents the long, distinguished and surprising history of breakfast cereal. …