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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
Cyberactivism, Viral Flash Activism, and Critical Literacy Pedagogy in the Age of The Meatrix
Eileen E. Schell
2011
Complex Worlds: Digital Culture, Rhetoric, and Professional Communication, published by Baywood Press
Bunnies for Pets or Meat: The Slaughterhouse as Cinematic Metaphor
Winifred J. Wood
2011
JAC
Rhetorical Recipes: Women’s Literacies In and Out of the Kitchen
Jamie White-Farnham
2011
Community Literacy Journal
Cooking Codes: Cookbook Discourses as Women’s Rhetorical Practices
Elizabeth J. Fleitz
2010
Present Tense
Teaching Taboos: An Annotated Bibliography of Unconventional Resources for the Rhetoric Classroom
Megan Condis and Sarah Alexander
2010
Enculturation
Putting China's Technical Communication into Historical Context: A Look at the Chinese Culinary Instruction Genre
Han Yu
2009
Technical Communication
Lydia J. Roberts's Nutrition Research and the Rhetoric of"Democratic" Science
Jordynn Jack
2009
CCC
Troubling Images: PETA’s “Holocaust on Your Plate” and the Limits of Image Events
C. Richard King
2009
Enculturation
How What You Eat Defines Who You Are: The Food Theme in Four American Women Writers
Irenna Ya-Hui
2008
Edwin Mellon Press
The Organic Foods System: Its Discursive Achievements and Prospects
David M. Nowacek and Rebecca S. Nowacek
2008
College English
Books That Cook: Teaching Food and Food Literature in the English Classroom
Jennifer Cognard-Black and Melissa A. Goldthwaite
2008
College English
Good, Clean, Fair: The Rhetoric of the Slow Food Movement
Stephen Schneider
2008
College English

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

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