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 |
