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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Katharine A. Burnett and Monica Carol Miller, "The Tacky South" (LSU Press, 2022)

July 19, 2022

The Tacky South

Katharine A. Burnett and Monica Carol Miller

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 “tack…

Kelsi Matwick and Keri Matwick, "Food Discourse of Celebrity Chefs of Food Network" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2019)

July 18, 2022

Food Discourse of Celebrity Chefs of Food Network

Kelsi Matwick and Keri Matwick

Kelsi Matwick and Keri Matwick's book Food Discourse of Celebrity Chefs of Food Network (Palgrave MacMillan, 2019) explores a fascinating, yet virtual…

Tanya M. Peres and Aaron Deter-Wolf, "Baking, Bourbon, and Black Drink" (U Alabama Press, 2018)

July 14, 2022

Baking, Bourbon, and Black Drink

Tanya M. Peres and Aaron Deter-Wolf

Understanding and explaining societal rules surrounding food and foodways have been the foci of anthropological studies since the early days of the di…

Suzanne Cope, "Power Hungry: Women of the Black Panther Party and Freedom Summer and Their Fight to Feed a Movement" (Lawrence Hill Books, 2021)

January 17, 2022

Power Hungry

Suzanne Cope

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…

Lettie Gay, "Two Hundred Years of Charleston Cooking" (U South Carolina Press, 2021)

September 1, 2021

Two Hundred Years of Charleston Cooking

Lettie Gay

Southern Food Historian Rebecca Sharpless discusses a new edition of Two Hundred Years of Charleston Cooking released in 2021 by University of South C…

Gina G. Warren, "Hatched: Dispatches from the Backyard Chicken Movement" (U Washington Press, 2021)

July 20, 2021

Hatched

Gina G. Warren

Guest Gina Warren discusses her newest book Hatched: Dispatches from the Backyard Chicken Movement, published May 2021 by University of Washington Pr…

Kate Lebo, "The Book of Difficult Fruit: Arguments for the Tart, Tender, and Unruly (with Recipes)" (FSG, 2021)

June 4, 2021

The Book of Difficult Fruit

Kate Lebo

Guest Kate Lebo discusses her newest book, The Book of Difficult Fruit: Arguments for the Tart, Tender, and Unruly with Recipes (Farrar, Straus, and G…

Christina Ward, "American Advertising Cookbooks: How Corporations Taught Us to Love Bananas, Spam, and Jell-O" (Process, 2019)

May 10, 2021

American Advertising Cookbooks

Christina Ward

Christina Ward’s newest book American Advertising Cookbooks: How Corporations Taught Us to Love Spam, Bananas, and Jell-O (Process Media, 2019) examin…

R. Harde and J. Wesselius, "Consumption and the Literary Cookbook" (Routledge, 2020)

April 8, 2021

Consumption and the Literary Cookbook

Roxanne Harde and Janet Wesselius

Consumption and the Literary Cookbook, edited by Roxanne Harde and Janet Wesselius (published 2021 by Routledge) examines the ways in which recipe au…

Kaitland M. Byrd, "Real Southern Barbecue: Constructing Authenticity in Southern Food Culture" (Lexington, 2019)

February 25, 2021

Real Southern Barbecue

Kaitland M. Byrd

Kaitland Byrd’s new book Real Southern Barbecue: Constructing Authenticity in Southern Food Culture (Lexington Press, 2019) examines an archive of ora…

M. Nestle and K. Trueman, "Let's Ask Marion: What You Need to Know about the Politics of Food, Nutrition, and Health" (U California Press, 2020)

January 13, 2021

Let's Ask Marion

Marion Nestle and Kerry Trueman

Marion Nestle describes her new book as “a small, quick and dirty reader for the general audience” summarizing some of her biggest and most influentia…

K. M. Broton and C. L. Cady, "Food Insecurity on Campus: Action and Intervention" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020)

January 11, 2021

Food Insecurity on Campus

Katharine M. Broton and Clare L. Cady

The new essay collection Food Insecurity on College Campuses edited by Katharine M. Broton and Clare L. Cady explores the widespread problem of food i…

Emily J. H. Contois, "Diners, Dudes, and Diets: How Gender and Power Collide in Food Media and Culture" (UNC Press, 2020)

November 19, 2020

Diners, Dudes, and Diets

Emily J. H. Contois

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 Dud…

Jessica Martell, "Farm to Form: Modernist Literature and Ecologies of Food in the British Empire" (U Nevada Press, 2020)

October 1, 2020

Farm to Form

Jessica Martell

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 B…

K. Keeling and S. Pollard, "Table Lands: Food in Children's Literature" (UP of Mississippi, 2020)

August 14, 2020

Table Lands

Kara Keeling and Scott Pollard

In this this interview, Carrie Tippen talks Kara Keeling and Scott Pollard about their new book, Table Lands: Food in Children's Literature, published…

Emily Wallace, "Road Sides: An Illustrated Companion to Dining and Driving in the American South" (U Texas Press, 2019)

July 24, 2020

Road Sides

Emily Wallace

In this this interview, Carrie Tippen talks with Emily Wallace, author and illustrator of the new book Road Sides: An Illustrated Companion to Dining …

Candi K. Cann, "Dying to Eat: Cross Cultural Perspectives on Food, Death and the Afterlife" (UP of Kentucky, 2018)

July 1, 2020

Dying to Eat

Candi K. Cann

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…

E. Engelhardt and L. Smith, "The Food We Eat, the Stories We Tell: Contemporary Appalachian Table" (Ohio UP, 2019)

May 25, 2020

The Food We Eat, the Stories We Tell

Elizabeth Engelhardt and Lora Smith

In this this interview, Carrie Tippen talks with Elizabeth Engelhardt, co-editor of the new collection The Food We Eat, the Stories We Tell: Contempor…

Conor Picken and Matthew Dischinger, "Southern Comforts: Drinking and the US South" (Louisiana State UP, 2020)

April 10, 2020

Southern Comforts

Conor Picken and Matthew Dischinger

In this this interview, Carrie Tippen talks with Conor Picken and Matthew Dischinger about their edited collection, Southern Comforts: Drinking and th…

Justin Nystrom, "Creole Italian: Sicilian Immigrants and the Shaping of New Orleans Food Culture" (U Georgia Press, 2018)

March 5, 2020

Creole Italian

Justin Nystrom

In this this interview, Carrie Tippen talks with Justin Nystrom about his latest book, Creole Italian: Sicilian Immigrants and the Shaping of New Orle…

J. L. Anderson, "Capitalist Pigs: Pigs, Pork, and Power in America" (West Virginia UP, 2019)

January 21, 2020

Capitalist Pigs

J. L. Anderson

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…

A. R. Ruis, "Eating to Learn, Learning to Eat: The Origins of School Lunch in the United States" (Rutgers UP, 2017)

December 10, 2019

Eating to Learn, Learning to Eat

A. R. Ruis

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…

Rafia Zafar, "Recipes for Respect: African American Meals and Meaning" (U Georgia Press, 2019)

October 11, 2019

Recipes for Respect

Rafia Zafar

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…

Jennifer Jensen Wallach, "Getting What We Need Ourselves: How Food Has Shaped African American Life" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2019)

September 18, 2019

Getting What We Need Ourselves

Jennifer Jensen Wallach

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 Af…