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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
An Appetite for Rhetoric
Nathan Stormer
2015
Philosophy and Rhetoric
Finding Ourselves in Our Food: M.F.K. Fisher’s The Art of Eating for the 21st Century
Max Despain
2015
Poroi
Food Scholarship and Food Writing
Smith et al.
2015
Food, Culture, and Society
To Meat or Not to Meat?: An Analysis of On-line Vegetarian Persuasive Rhetoric
Beth Jorgensen
2015
Poroi
Craft Rhetoric
Jeff Rice
2015
Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies
Cooking, Celebrity Chefs, and Public Chef Intellectuals
Anna M. Young and Justin Eckstein
2015
Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies
The Racialized Rhetorics of Food Politics: Black Farmers, the Case of Shirley Sherrod, and Struggle for Land Equity and Access
Eileen E. Schell
2015
Poroi
“Squirrel, if You're so Inclined”: Recipes, Narrative and the Rhetoric of Southern Identity
Carrie Helms Tippen
2015
Food, Culture, and Society
The Rhetoric of Food: Precendent Food Texts as Inventio
Adrienne P. Lamberti
2015
Poroi
De aquí y de allá: Changing Perceptions of Literacy through Food Pedagogy, Asset-Based Narratives, and Hybrid Spaces
Dura et al.
2015
Community Literacy Journal
Writing the Food Studies Movement
Marion Nestle and William Mcintosh
2015
Food, Culture, and Society
“EATING FRESH” IN AMERICA: SUBWAY RESTAURANT’S NUTRITIONAL RHETORIC
Jessica Lundgren
2015
Young Scholars in Writing

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

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