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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
“Cooking in Someone Else’s Kitchen”: Exploring Food as a Commonplace for Antiracist Pedagogy, White Allyship, and Feeding Civic Imagination
E. Vivian Leigh
2024
Lateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies Association
Cooking with Scissors and Paste: Recoveries and Reconsiderations of Motta Sims’s Composition Book at Spelman College
Andrew Fiss
2024
Peitho
Cooking Up Rhetoric: Exploring Rhetoric, Culture, and Identity through Food-Based Texts
Jennifer C. Mallette
2024
Composition Studies
Bait al-Mouneh: Traditional Syrian Homemaking as Roots for Women’s Agency
Nabila Hijazi
2024
constellations
Woke Sausages at the Cracker Barrel: Gastronativism and the Synecdochic Politics of Plant-Based Meat
David Rooney and S. Marek Muller
2023
Rhetoric & Public Affairs
Thinking Across Modes and Media (and Baking Cake): Two Techniques for Writing with Video, Audio, and Images
Crystal VanKooten
2023
Writing Spaces
Learning to Landscape: Using Black Feminist Rhetoric to Re-Interpret Michelle Obama's Kitchen Garden
Ronisha Browdy
2023
Rhetoric, Politics & Culture
Constructing the gendered body in prison cookbooks
A. E. Stearns and Casey D. Albritton
2023
Food, Society, and Culture
Women in the Margins: A Culture-Centered Interrogation of Hunger and “Food Apartheid” in the United States
Rebecca de Souza
2023
Health Communication
Food Justice Activism and Pedagogies: Literacies and Rhetorics for Transforming Food Systems in Local and Transnational Contexts
Eileen E. Schell, Dianna Winslow, and Pritisha Shrestha
2023
Rowman & Littlefield
The Rhetorical Construction of Vegetarianism
Cristina Hanganu-Bresch
2023
Routledge
“Dainty, Sparkling, Delicious”: Jell-O Constructions of White Femininity
Abby Dubisar
2023
Technical Communication Quarterly

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

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