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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
Food Fights: Cookbook Rhetorics, Monolithic Constructions of Womanhood, and Field Narratives in Technical Communication
Marie E. Moeller and Erin A. Frost
2016
Technical Communication Quarterly
Linking Rural Women Transnationally: Iowa’s “First Lady of the Farm” and Post WWII Ethos
Abby M. Dubisar
2016
Peitho
“If I Can’t Bake, I Don’t Want To Be Part of Your Revolution”: CODEPINK’s Activist Literacies of Peace and Pie
Abby Dubisar
2016
Community Literacy Journal
Blood Sugar: Racial Pharmacology and Food Justice in Black America
Anthony Ryan Hatch
2016
University of Minnesota Press
Taco Literacies: Ethnography, Foodways, and Emotions through Mexican Food Writing
Steven Alvarez
2016
Composition Forum
“Thug Life” in a White Kitchen: Exploring Race Work in the Language of Cookbooks
Meaghan Elliott
2016
Graduate Food Studies Journal
Lost in Translation: The Rhetoric of Nutrition and Starvation
Cathryn Piwinski
2016
Journal of Social and Cultural Analysis
Sponsors of Agricultural Literacies: Intersections of Institutional and Local Knowledge in a Farming Community
Marcy L. Galbreath
2015
Community Literacy Journal
Community Cookbooks: Sponsors of Literacy and Community Identity
Lisa Mastrangelo
2015
Community Literacy Journal
The Politics of Wine and the Style of Bullshit
Anna M. Young
2015
Rhetoric Society Quarterly
Cooking Without Women: The Rhetoric of the New Culinary Male
Casey Ryan Kelly
2015
Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies
Nutritional Noise: Community Literacies and the Movement Against Foods Labeled as “Natural”
Erin Trauth
2015
Community Literacy Journal

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

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