top of page

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
Local Organic: Food Rhetorics and Community Writing for Impact
Veronica House
2025
University Press of Colorado
Food Justice Rhetorics and Literacies
Eileen E. Schell
2025
Bloomsbury
“You Have Time, and You Should Cook, Tonight:” Erasing Feminized Labor on 30-Minute Meals
Ashley M. Beardsley
2024
Peitho
“Cooking in Someone Else’s Kitchen”: Exploring Food as a Commonplace for Antiracist Pedagogy, White Allyship, and Feeding Civic Imagination
E. Vivian Leigh
2024
Lateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies Association
Cooking Up Rhetoric: Exploring Rhetoric, Culture, and Identity through Food-Based Texts
Jennifer C. Mallette
2024
Composition Studies
Bait al-Mouneh: Traditional Syrian Homemaking as Roots for Women’s Agency
Nabila Hijazi
2024
constellations
Thinking Across Modes and Media (and Baking Cake): Two Techniques for Writing with Video, Audio, and Images
Crystal VanKooten
2023
Writing Spaces
Constructing the gendered body in prison cookbooks
A. E. Stearns and Casey D. Albritton
2023
Food, Society, and Culture
Food Justice Activism and Pedagogies: Literacies and Rhetorics for Transforming Food Systems in Local and Transnational Contexts
Eileen E. Schell, Dianna Winslow, and Pritisha Shrestha
2023
Rowman & Littlefield
The Rhetorical Construction of Vegetarianism
Cristina Hanganu-Bresch
2023
Routledge
“Dainty, Sparkling, Delicious”: Jell-O Constructions of White Femininity
Abby Dubisar
2023
Technical Communication Quarterly

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

bottom of page