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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
Mindful Persistence: Literacies for Taking up and Sustaining Fermented-Food Projects
Santana et al.
2015
Community Literacy Journal
Will Write for Food: The Complete Guide to Writing Blogs, Cookbooks, Reviews, Memoirs, and More..
Dianne Jacob
2015
Hachette Books
Rhetorics and Foodways
Anna M. Young, Justin Eckstein, and Donovan Conley
2015
Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies
Irony and Food Politics
Michael S. Bruner and Laura K. Hahn
2015
Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies
M/Orality
Donovan Conley
2015
Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies
Cooking Up Hashtag Activism: #PaulasBestDishes and Counternarratives of Southern Food
Anjali Vats
2015
Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies
“Taste Analytically”: Julia Child’s Rhetoric of Cultivation
Erin L. Branch
2015
Rhetoric Society Quarterly
Eating Words: A Norton Anthology of Food Writing
Sandra M. Gilbert and Roger J. Porter
2015
W. W. Norton
Writing the Wolf Away : food meaning & memories from world war II
Meryl S. Rosofsky
2015
Food, Culture, and Society
Community Food Literacies: An Introduction
Michael Pennell
2015
Community Literacy Journal
The Radical Potential of the Food Justice Movement
Nancy Romer
2014
Radical Teacher
Re-Framing the Argument: Critical Service- Learning and Community-Centered Food Literacy
Veronica House
2014
Community Literacy Journal

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

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