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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
The Good Body, Skilled in Eating
Donovan Conley
2013
Pre/Text: A Journal of Rhetorical Theory
Love in the Time of Global Warming
Mark Stern
2013
Pre/Text: A Journal of Rhetorical Theory
The Organic Libertarian: How Deregulation Should Benefit Small Farms
Eric Reuter
2013
Pre/Text: A Journal of Rhetorical Theory
Rhetorical Theory in the Light of Food: The Meaning of Authority in Top Chef Masters
Roland Clark Brooks
2013
Pre/Text: A Journal of Rhetorical Theory
Healthy Living: Metaphors We Eat By?
Spoel et al.
2012
Present Tense
Eliza Leslie's 1854 The Behaviour Book and the Conduct of Women's Writing
Alexandria Peary
2012
Rhetoric Review
Framing the Megarhetorics of Agricultural Development: Industrialized Agriculture and Sustainable Agriculture
Eileen E. Schell
2012
Megarhetorics of Globalized Development published with University of Pittsburgh Press
V is for Voices: Engaging Student Interest, Sustaining Student Thinking and Writing in Today’s Writing Classrooms with Fountainhead Press’s V Series
Amy Patrick Mossman
2012
Composition Forum
How the Other Half Ate: A History of Working-Class Meals at the Turn of the Century
Katherine Leonard Turner
2012
University of California Press
Think Global, Eat Local: Teaching Alternative Agrarian Literacy in a Globalized Age
Eileen E. Schell
2012
Teaching Writing in Globalization: Remapping Disciplinary Work, published by Lexington Books
The moralization of healthy living: Burke’s rhetoric of rebirth and older adults’ accounts of healthy eating
Philippa Spoel, Roma Harris, Flis Henwood
2012
Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness, and Medicine
“Wellness” as Incipient Illness: Dietary Supplements in a Biomedical Culture
Colleen Derkatch
2012
Present Tense

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

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