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About Carrie Helms Tippen

Carrie Helms Tippen is Associate Professor of English and Assistant Dean of the School of Arts, Science, and Business at Chatham University in Pittsburgh, PA, where she teaches courses in American Literature. Her 2018 book, Inventing Authenticity: How Cookbook Writers Redefine Southern Identity (University of Arkansas Press), examines the rhetorical strategies that writers use to prove the authenticity of their recipes in the narrative headnotes of contemporary cookbooks. Her academic work has been published in Gastronomica, Food and Foodways, American Studies, Southern Quarterly, and Food, Culture, and Society.

Carrie Helms Tippen is Associate Professor of English and Assistant Dean of the School of Arts, Science, and Business at Chatham University in Pittsburgh, PA, where she teaches courses in American Literature.

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NBN Episodes hosted by Carrie:

American South July 19, 2022

The Tacky South

Katharine A. Burnett and Monica Carol Miller

Hosted by Carrie Helms Tippen
As a way to comment on a person’s style or taste, the word “tacky” has distinctly southern origins, with its roots tracing back to the so-called “tackies” who tacked horses …
Food July 18, 2022

Food Discourse of Celebrity Chefs of Food Network

Kelsi Matwick and Keri Matwick

Hosted by Carrie Helms Tippen
Kelsi Matwick and Keri Matwick's book Food Discourse of Celebrity Chefs of Food Network (Palgrave MacMillan, 2019) explores a fascinating, yet virtually unexplored research area: the language of food used on …
Food July 14, 2022

Baking, Bourbon, and Black Drink

Foodways Archaeology in the American Southeast

Tanya M. Peres and Aaron Deter-Wolf

Hosted by Carrie Helms Tippen
Understanding and explaining societal rules surrounding food and foodways have been the foci of anthropological studies since the early days of the discipline. Baking, Bourbon, and Black Drink: Foodways Archaeology …
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 September 1, 2021

Two Hundred Years of Charleston Cooking

Lettie Gay

Hosted by Carrie Helms Tippen
Southern Food Historian Rebecca Sharpless discusses a new edition of Two Hundred Years of Charleston Cooking released in 2021 by University of South Carolina Press. Sharpless added a new critical …
Food July 20, 2021

Hatched

Dispatches from the Backyard Chicken Movement

Gina G. Warren

Hosted by Carrie Helms Tippen
Guest Gina Warren discusses her newest book Hatched: Dispatches from the Backyard Chicken Movement, published May 2021 by University of Washington Press. Warren chronicles her experience in starting a backyard …
Food June 4, 2021

The Book of Difficult Fruit

Arguments for the Tart, Tender, and Unruly (with Recipes)

Kate Lebo

Hosted by Carrie Helms Tippen
Guest Kate Lebo discusses her newest book, The Book of Difficult Fruit: Arguments for the Tart, Tender, and Unruly with Recipes (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2021). While Lebo has authored …
Food May 10, 2021

American Advertising Cookbooks

How Corporations Taught Us to Love Bananas, Spam, and Jell-O

Christina Ward

Hosted by Carrie Helms Tippen
Christina Ward’s newest book American Advertising Cookbooks: How Corporations Taught Us to Love Spam, Bananas, and Jell-O (Process Media, 2019) examines a familiar but understudied sub-genre of commercially published cookbooks …
Food April 8, 2021

Consumption and the Literary Cookbook

Roxanne Harde and Janet Wesselius

Hosted by Carrie Helms Tippen
Consumption and the Literary Cookbook, edited by Roxanne Harde and Janet Wesselius (published 2021 by Routledge) examines the ways in which recipe authors and readers engage with one another through …
Food February 25, 2021

Real Southern Barbecue

Constructing Authenticity in Southern Food Culture

Kaitland M. Byrd

Hosted by Carrie Helms Tippen
Kaitland Byrd’s new book Real Southern Barbecue: Constructing Authenticity in Southern Food Culture (Lexington Press, 2019) examines an archive of oral histories collected by the Southern Foodways Alliance featuring the …
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 …
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 …
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 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 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 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 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 …
Food May 25, 2020

The Food We Eat, the Stories We Tell

Contemporary Appalachian Tables

Elizabeth Engelhardt and Lora Smith

Hosted by Carrie Helms Tippen
In this this interview, Carrie Tippen talks with Elizabeth Engelhardt, co-editor of the new collection The Food We Eat, the Stories We Tell: Contemporary Appalachian Tables (Ohio University Press, 2019) …
Food April 10, 2020

Southern Comforts

Drinking and the US South

Conor Picken and Matthew Dischinger

Hosted by Carrie Helms Tippen
In this this interview, Carrie Tippen talks with Conor Picken and Matthew Dischinger about their edited collection, Southern Comforts: Drinking and the US South from Louisiana State University Press’s Southern …
Food March 5, 2020

Creole Italian

Sicilian Immigrants and the Shaping of New Orleans Food Culture

Justin Nystrom

Hosted by Carrie Helms Tippen
In this this interview, Carrie Tippen talks with Justin Nystrom about his latest book, Creole Italian: Sicilian Immigrants and the Shaping of New Orleans Food Culture, published in 2018 by …
Food January 21, 2020

Capitalist Pigs

Pigs, Pork, and Power in America

J. L. Anderson

Hosted by Carrie Helms Tippen
In this this interview, Dr. Carrie Tippen talks with J. L. Anderson about the 2019 book Capitalist Pigs: Pigs, Pork, and Power in America published by West Virginia University Press …
Food December 10, 2019

Eating to Learn, Learning to Eat

The Origins of School Lunch in the United States

A. R. Ruis

Hosted by Carrie Helms Tippen
In this this interview, Dr. Carrie Tippen talks with A.R. Ruis about the 2017 book Eating to Learn: Learning to Eat The Origins of School Lunch in the United States …
Food October 11, 2019

Recipes for Respect

African American Meals and Meaning

Rafia Zafar

Hosted by 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 …
Food September 18, 2019

Getting What We Need Ourselves

How Food Has Shaped African American Life

Jennifer Jensen Wallach

Hosted by 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 & …