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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
Genre Bending and Spiritual Resistance: Mina Pachter’s Concentration Camp “Cookbook”
Lisa Mastrangelo
2021
Rhetoric Review
Rhetorics of data in nonprofit settings: How community engagement pedagogies can enact social justice
Jennifer Bay and Rachel Atherton
2021
Computerers and Composition
Toxically Clean: Homophonic Expertise, Goop, and the Ideology of Choice
Julie Homchick Crowe
2021
Rhetoric of Health & Medicine
Reading and Writing the Social Swirls of The French Chef: Social Circulation and the Fan Mail of Julia Child
Lindy E. Briggette
2021
Peitho
Rhetoric of Food Authenticity and National Identity in the New Media
Jamaluddin Bin Aziz, Fuzirah Hashim
2021
GEMA Online Journal of Language Studies
Decolonial Dinners: Ethical Considerations of "Decolonial" Metaphors in TPC
Cana Uluak Itchuaqiyaq and Breeanne Matheson
2021
Technical Communication Quarterly
Kincentricity and Indigenous Wellbeing: Food(ways) and/as Holistic Health in the Native Medicine Wheel
Rachel Presley
2021
Rhetoric of Health & Medicine
I Want You to Panic: Leveraging the Rhetoric of Fear and Rage for the Future of Food
Iselin Gambert
2021
Journal of Food Law and Policy
Eating Data: The Rhetorics of Food, Medicine, and Technology in Employee Wellness Programs
Danielle Stambler
2021
Rhetoric of Health & Medicine
The Dialectic of Food Swamps and Clean Food: Ecological Interventions for Disrupting Individualizing Frames of Food Choice
Emma Lozon
2021
Rhetoric of Health & Medicine
(Re) Mixing Up Literacy: Cookbooks as Rhetorical Remix
Elizabeth J. Fleitz
2021
Community Literacy Journal
On Historical Connections in/to Food as Medicine
Lisa Melonçon
2021
Rhetoric of Health & Medicine

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

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