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Food
April 14, 2024
Chinese Espresso
Why and how local coffee bars in Italy--those distinctively Italian social and cultural spaces--have been increasingly managed by Chinese baristas sin…
April 13, 2024
The Simple Art of Rice
The Simple Art of Rice: Recipes from Around the World for the Heart of Your Table (Flatiron Books, 2023) is a cookbook celebrating the versatility of …
April 5, 2024
Health Apps, Genetic Diets and Superfoods
Health Apps, Genetic Diets and Superfoods: When Biopolitics Meets Neoliberalism (Bloomsbury, 2023) critically examines contemporary health and wellnes…
April 3, 2024
Hokkaido Dairy Farm
As an ethnography of a Japanese dairy farm while having theoretical values going beyond the specific context, Hokkaido Dairy Farm: Cosmopolitics of Ot…
March 31, 2024
Boardinghouse Women
In Boardinghouse Women: How Southern Keepers, Cooks, Nurses, Widows, and Runaways Shaped Modern America (UNC Press, 2023), Elizabeth Engelhardt argues…
March 30, 2024
School Food Politics in Mexico
For decades now, we’ve all heard the refrain – we are in a war against obesity, with perhaps the most important battle being fought over the health of…
March 28, 2024
Bigger Fish to Fry
What defines cooking as cooking, and why does cooking matter to the understanding of society, cultural change and everyday life? Bigger Fish to Fry: A…
March 19, 2024
Animals and Capital
In the 20th century, capitalist animal agriculture emerged with a twofold mission: to ruthlessly exploit animals for their labour time and enlarge hum…
March 18, 2024
Xaq Frohlich on the History of Food Labeling
Peoples & Things host Lee Vinsel talks with Xaq Frohlich, Associate Professor of History at Auburn University, about his new book, From Label to Table…
March 14, 2024
Secret Harvests
Today’s book is: Secret Harvests: A Hidden Story of Separation and the Resilience of a Family Farm (Red Hen Press, 2023), by David Mas Masumoto. In hi…
March 8, 2024
The Taste of Water
Have you ever wondered why your tap water tastes the way it does? The Taste of Water: Sensory Perception and the Making of an Industrialized Beverage …
March 6, 2024
No Meat Required
A culinary and cultural history of plant-based eating in the United States that delves into the subcultures and politics that have defined alternative…
March 5, 2024
Apples and Orchards Since the Eighteenth Century
Showing how the history of the apple goes far beyond the orchard and into the social, cultural and technological developments of Britain and the USA, …
February 27, 2024
The Hipster Economy
Today, being authentic has become an aspiration and an imperative. The notion of authenticity shapes the consumption habits of individuals in the most…
February 27, 2024
The Taste of Water
After WAY too long a hiatus, Peoples & Things is back! GET EXCITED!! In this episode, host Lee Vinsel interviews Christy Spackman, Assistant Professor…
February 25, 2024
Kibbitz and Nosh
In the middle decades of the twentieth century in New York City, Dubrow’s cafeterias in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn and the garment district of M…
February 16, 2024
Imperial Wine
Imperial Wine: How the British Empire Made Wine’s New World (University of California Press, 2022) by Dr. Jennifer Regan-Lefebvre is a bold, rigorous …
February 12, 2024
The Meat Paradox
Our future diet will be shaped by diverse forces. It will be shaped by novel technologies, by geopolitical tensions, and the evolution of cultural pre…
February 11, 2024
Mother Cow, Mother India
India imposes stringent criminal penalties, including life imprisonment in some states, for cow slaughter, based on a Hindu ethic of revering the cow …
February 3, 2024
The Grapes of Conquest
California’s wine country conjures images of pastoral vineyards and cellars lined with oak barrels. As a mainstay of the state’s economy, California w…