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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
Beyond Biomedicine: Finding Care in Embodied Memories about Food
Tyler Snelling
2023
Rhetoric of Health & Medicine
Feminist Ethos and Global Food Systems Rhetorics on Campus
Abby Dubisar
2023
Peitho
Making hamburgers healthy: plant-based meat and the rhetorical (re)constructions of food through science
Jessica Mudry and Ryan J. Phillips
2023
Food, Culture, & Society
Inscrutable Eating Asian Appetites and the Rhetorics of Racial Consumption
Jennifer Lin Lemesurier
2023
The Ohio State University Press
How the Pandemic Redefined Comfort Food: American Individualism, Culinary Relativism, and Shifting Moralities
Lucy M. Long
2022
Popular Culture Studies Journal
"Multimodal Literacy and the Myth of Low-Skilled Labor at Waffle House"
Michael David Measel
2022
The Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics
Recipe for dealing with a global pandemic when you’re grieving and feeling hurt
Amanda Andersen
2022
The Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics
Coping Through COVID Cooking: Nostalgia and Resilience in Online Communities
Ashli Quesinberry Stokes and Wendy Atkins-Sayre
2022
Popular Culture Studies Journal
Supermarket Culinary Magazine: A Telescope to Observe Portuguese Contemporary Food Culture
Cynthia Luderer and Eveline Baptistella
2022
Popular Culture Studies Journal
Woman The Gatherer, Writer, Pandemic Survivor
Kylie Herrera
2022
The Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics
Ethos, Hospitality, and the Pursuit of Rhetorical Healing: How Three Decolonial Cookbooks Reconstitute Cultural Identity through Ancestral Foodways
Brita M. Thielen
2022
Rhetoric Review
“Save Money and Save the Planet”: The Rhetorical Appeal and Use of (Anti-)Food Waste and Rescue Apps During Covid-19
Leda Cooks
2022
Popular Culture Studies Journal

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

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