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
“We Are What We Eat”: Adopting Recipe Writing as a Boundary Object of First-Year Writing and Nutrition Courses	Soyeon Lee and Shuo Zhang	2022	Across the Disciplines
Food, Feminist Rhetorical Studies, and Conservative Women: The Case of Elizabeth David	Richard Vytniorgu	2022	Rhetoric Review
Farming as Carework; or, Composting Careers	Jonathan L. Bradshaw	2022	The Journal of Multimodal Rhetoric
“You Are a Bright Light in These Crazy Times”: The Rhetorical Strategies of#BakeClub that Counter Pandemic Isolation and Systemic Racism	Ashley M. Beardsley	2022	Popular Culture Studies Journal
The Rhetoric of Emotions and Food Consumption in Desperate Housewives	Nieves Alberola Crespo	2022	IMAGO Revista de Emblemática y Cultura Visual
Storytelling and Relationality: Faculty Experiences During the Texas Winter Storm	Cedillo et al.	2021	constellations
Women food writers in authoritarian regimes: upholding and subverting power in Cuba’s batistato and Paraguay’s stronato	Lara Anderson and Carlos Uxo	2021	Food, Culture, and Society
Veg(etari)an Arguments in Culture, History, and Practice: The V Word	Edited by Cristina Hanganu-Bresch and Kristin Kondrlik	2021	Palgrave Macmillan
From science to sensational headline: a critical examination of the “sugar as toxic” narrative	Hervik et al.	2021	Food, Culture, and Society
Culinary Crimes at the Shame Station: The Food Network’s Role in Policing Indulgent Women	E. Vivian Leigh	2021	McFarland & Company
The Rhetoric of Food as Medicine: Introduction to Special Issue on the Rhetoric of Food and Health	Cristina Hanganu- Bresch	2021	Rhetoric of Health & Medicine
White Bread as a Working-Class Symbol	Kelli R. Gill	2021	Brill