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Science January 19, 2022

Lives of Weeds

Opportunism, Resistance, Folly

John Cardina

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
Lives of Weeds: Opportunism, Resistance, Folly (Cornell UP, 2021) explores the tangled history of weeds and their relationship to humans. Through eight interwoven stories, John Cardina offers a fresh perspective …

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Food January 17, 2022

Power Hungry

Women of the Black Panther Party and Freedom Summer and Their Fight to Feed a Movement

Suzanne Cope

Hosted by Carrie Helms Tippen
Today I talked to Suzanne Cope about her new book Power Hungry: Women of the Black Panther Party and Freedom Summer and Their Fight to Feed a Movement (Lawrence Hill Books, 2021)In …
Food December 31, 2021

A Recipe for Gentrification

Food, Power, and Resistance in the City

Alison Hope Alkon, Yuki Kato, and Joshua Sbicca

Hosted by Aubrey Thamann
A Recipe for Gentrification: Food, Power, and Resistance in the City (NYU Press, 2020), edited by Alison Hope Alkon, Yuki Kato, and Joshua Sbicca, is a collection of essays examining how …
Anthropology December 21, 2021

Famished

Eating Disorders and Failed Care in America

Rebecca J. Lester

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
When Rebecca Lester was eleven years old--and again when she was eighteen--she almost died from anorexia nervosa. Now both a tenured professor in anthropology and a licensed social worker, she …
African American Studies December 13, 2021

Black Food

Stories, Art, and Recipes from Across the African Diaspora

Bryant Terry

Hosted by N'Kosi Oates
James Beard and NAACP Image Award-winning chef and educator, Bryant Terry calls Black Food a “communal shrine to the shared culinary histories of the African diaspora.” Black Food: Stories, Art …
Japanese Studies January 17, 2022

Cultivating Femininity

Women and Tea Culture in Edo and Meiji Japan

Rebecca Corbett

Hosted by Takeshi Morisato
The overwhelming majority of tea practitioners in contemporary Japan are women, but there has been little discussion on their historical role in tea culture (chanoyu). In Cultivating Femininity: Women and …
Food December 24, 2021

Tomato

A Global History

Clarissa Hyman

Hosted by Amir Sayadabdi
In the history of food, the tomato is a relative newcomer but it would now be impossible to imagine the food cultures of many nations without them. The journey taken …
Food December 17, 2021

The Immigrant Kitchen

Food, Ethnicity, and Diaspora

Vivian Nun Halloran

Hosted by Amir Sayadabdi
In The Immigrant Kitchen: Food, Ethnicity, and Diaspora (Ohio State UP, 2016), Vivian Nun Halloran examines food memoirs by immigrants and their descendants and reveals how their treatment of food …
Food December 17, 2021

Gender and Food

A Critical Look at the Food System

Shelley L. Koch

Hosted by Amir Sayadabdi
Gender and Food: A Critical Look at the Food System (Rowman and Littlefield, 2019) synthesizes existing theoretical and empirical research on food, gender, and intersectionality to offer students and scholars a …
Human Rights December 13, 2021

Meatpacking America

How Migration, Work, and Faith Unite and Divide the Heartland

Kristy Nabhan-Warren

Hosted by John McKerley
Whether valorized as the heartland or derided as flyover country, the Midwest became instantly notorious when COVID-19 infections skyrocketed among workers in meatpacking plants—and Americans feared for their meat supply …
Public Policy December 10, 2021

How the Other Half Eats

The Untold Story of Food and Inequality in America

Priya Fielding-Singh

Hosted by Stephen Pimpare
Inequality in America manifests in many ways, but perhaps nowhere more than in how we eat. From her years of field research, sociologist and ethnographer Priya Fielding-Singh brings us into …
Food December 7, 2021

Saffron

A Global History

Ramin Ganeshram

Hosted by Amir Sayadabdi
Explore the dramatic history of the world’s most expensive spice in Saffron: A Global History (Reaktion Books, 2020). Literally worth their weight in gold, sunset-red saffron threads are prized internationally. Saffron can …
Food December 6, 2021

Food

Fabio Parasecoli

Hosted by Amir Sayadabdi
Everybody eats. We may even consider ourselves experts on the topic, or at least Instagram experts. But are we aware that the shrimp in our freezer may be farmed and …
Food December 2, 2021

Research Methods in Digital Food Studies

Jonatan Leer and Stinne Gunder Strøm Krogager

Hosted by Amir Sayadabdi
Research Methods in Digital Food Studies (Routledge, 2021) offers the first methodological synthesis of digital food studies. It brings together contributions from leading scholars in food and media studies and explores …
Sociology December 1, 2021

Getting Something to Eat in Jackson

Race, Class, and Food in the American South

Joseph C. Ewoodzie

Hosted by Michael Johnston
Getting Something to Eat in Jackson (Princeton Press, 2021) uses food—what people eat and how—to explore the interaction of race and class in the lives of African Americans in the …
Geography November 30, 2021

The Sixteen-Dollar Taco

Contested Geographies of Food, Ethnicity, and Gentrification

Pascale Joassart-Marcelli

Hosted by Stentor Danielson
White middle-class eaters are increasingly venturing into historically segregated urban neighborhoods in search of "authentic" eating in restaurants run by-and originally catering to-immigrants and people of color. What does a …
Food November 30, 2021

Mustard

A Global History

Demet Güzey

Hosted by Amir Sayadabdi
Whether grainy or smooth, spicy or sweet, Dijon, American, or English, mustard accompanies our food and flavors our life around the globe. It has been a source of pleasure, health …
Food November 23, 2021

Food Justice Now!

Deepening the Roots of Social Struggle

Joshua Sbicca

Hosted by Amir Sayadabdi
Food Justice Now: Deepening the Roots of Social Struggle (University of Minnesota Press, 2018) charts a path from food activism to social justice activism that integrates the two. In an engrossing, historically …
Food November 22, 2021

Feeding Iran

Shi`i Families and the Making of the Islamic Republic

Rose Wellman

Hosted by Amir Sayadabdi
Since Iran's 1979 Revolution, the imperative to create and protect the inner purity of family and nation in the face of outside spiritual corruption has been a driving force in …
Asian Review of Books November 18, 2021

The Lettuce Diaries

How A Frenchman Found Gold Growing Vegetables In China

Xavier Naville

Hosted by Nicholas Gordon
Many Western entrepreneurs and businesses have foundered in trying to set up shop in China. Different expectations, different ways of doing business, different institutions and platforms—all come together to remove …