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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
American Craft Brewers: A Story of Collaboration & Creativity
Greg Koch
2013
Pre/Text: A Journal of Rhetorical Theory
Menu Literacy
Jeff Rice
2013
Pre/Text: A Journal of Rhetorical Theory
Let Them Eat Organic Cake
Meghan Lynch and Audrey Giles
2013
Food, Culture, and Society
Cook, Eat, and Write the Self: L'ecriture Feminine, Alice Waters, and the Slow Food Revolution
Heather Eaton McGrane
2013
Pre/Text: A Journal of Rhetorical Theory
Food for Thought
Phillip Foss
2013
Pre/Text: A Journal of Rhetorical Theory
The Urban Food Database and the Pedagogy of Attunement
Jodie Noctra
2013
Pre/Text: A Journal of Rhetorical Theory
The Erotic Pleasure of Danger Food
Zachary Snider
2013
Pre/Text: A Journal of Rhetorical Theory
Un(Loveable) Food
Jenny Edbauer Rice
2013
Pre/Text: A Journal of Rhetorical Theory
The Rhetoric of Food: Discourse, Materiality, and Power
Joshua Frye, Michael Bruner
2013
Routledge
What Does Your Money Get You?: Active Learning as an Alternative to Consumerism in the Composition Classroom
Faith Kurtyka
2013
Composition Forum
Not A Self-Help Class: On Teaching Michael Pollan's In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
Andrew Tonkovich
2013
Radical Teacher
Introduction: Food Theory
Jenny Edbauer Rice and Jeff Rice
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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