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Bibliography

As an interdisciplinary topic, scholarship on food and rhetoric often spans across different journals, conferences, and fields making it difficult to locate. This bibliography is a working-reading list for those interested in digging into food rhetorics. The goal of this reading list is to be inclusive to any writing useful for scholars, teachers, and students. This list will be particularly useful for graduate students creating exam lists focused on food studies.

 

Publications were collected from major disciplinary journals in rhetoric and composition using the keyterms: food, recipe, cook, eat, and foodways. Publications from interdisciplinary food studies journals were found by searching keyterms: rhetoric, composition, writing, cookbook, foodways, recipe, and texts. If there is a reading you recommend (including your own work!) you can add the reading via this googlesheet. 

This list is a work in progress. All titles link to the publication or an open-access copy of the text. If you lack institutional access, feel free to email a request for a copy of the publication.

Title
Author
Date
Publisher
#WhatIEatInADay *As A Fat Person Not on A Diet: Eating Online as Feminist Performative Symbolic Resistance
Kelli R. Gill
2026
Peitho
Rhetorical Sandwiches: Layering Ethos and Epideictic Appeals as a Persuasive Strategy in Public Discourses of Healthy Eating
Danielle Mollie Stambler
2026
Peitho
Local Organic: Food Rhetorics and Community Writing for Impact
Veronica House
2025
University Press of Colorado
Cookin’ Up a Multimodal Story: Community-Engaged Writing and a Cultural Rhetorics Cookbook
Clara Lechowski and Alexander Slotkin
2025
Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric
Food Justice Rhetorics and Literacies
Eileen E. Schell
2025
Bloomsbury
Shitposting to the Senate: humor, affect, and the working class in the Fetterman–Oz race
Calvin R. Coker and Michelle E. Funk
2025
Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies
Toxic Sweetness and Abstinence: The Citationality of Robert Lustig’s Anti-Sugar Rhetoric.
Tyler J. Snelling
2025
Iowa Journal of Communication
Farm to Forum: Exploring Agritourism as a Site for Tactical Technical Communication
Beth J. Shirley, Shannon Arnold, Kim Woodring, and Dustin Perry
2025
Technical Communication Quarterly
“You Have Time, and You Should Cook, Tonight:” Erasing Feminized Labor on 30-Minute Meals
Ashley M. Beardsley
2024
Peitho
Beer farmers: cultivating an agribusiness atmosphere and consuming agrarian myth
Tracie Martinson and Abby M. Dubisar
2024
Quarterly Journal of Speech
Hungry Roots: How Food Communicates Appalachia's Search for Resilience
Ashli Quesinberry Stokes and Wendy Atkins-Sayre
2024
University of South Carolina Press
Intersectional Ecofeminist Food Rhetoric
Norie R. Singer
2024
The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Feminist Rhetoric

Food Rhetoric: A scholarly resource devoted to food, rhetoric, composition and everything in-between. 

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