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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
Word of Mouth: What We Talk About When We Talk About Food
Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson
2014
University of California Press
Whose Food Revolution? Perspectives from a Food Service Training Academy
Doris Friedensohn
2014
Radical Teacher
Agroecological Formación in Rural Social Movements
McCune et al.
2014
Radical Teacher
Basic Writing Through the Back Door: Community-Engaged Courses in the Rush-to- Credit Age
Cori Brewster
2014
Basic Writing E-Journal
Writing in the Kitchen: Essays on Southern Literature and Foodways
Edited by David A. Davis and Tara Powell
2014
University Press of Mississippi
"Revising the Menu to Fit the Budget": Grocery Lists and Other Rhetorical Heirlooms
Jamie White-Farnham
2014
College English
Mobilizing to Re-value and Re-skill Foodservice Labor in U.S. School Lunchrooms: A Pathway to Community-level Food Sovereignty?
Jennifer E. Gaddis
2014
Radical Teacher
“Good For You and Good To You": The Importance of Emphasizing Race when Radicalizing Students around the Food Movement
John M. Burdick
2014
Radical Teacher
Radical Teaching and the Food Justice Movement
Annas et al.
2014
Radical Teacher
Feeding Revolution: The Black Panther Party and the Politics of Food
Mary Potorti
2014
Radical Teacher
My Conversion from Religion to Chocolate
Alan McClure
2013
Pre/Text: A Journal of Rhetorical Theory
Consuming Iowa, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Earl Butz
David M. Grant
2013
Pre/Text: A Journal of Rhetorical Theory

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

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