#Food-culture

A group with which I was unfamiliar, PropellerFish, sent me a report of a survey it conducted: Partisan Wellbeing in America. Earlier this year, we sponsored a study to take a more robust look at how partisanship may be shaping people’s decisions around health, nutrition and wellbeing. We

Anya Von Bremzen. History, and the Meaning of Home. Penguin, 2023. I can never get over how many superb books are now published on food themes, on after another. Consider—and you definitely should—this one, for example. For starters, there’s the fabulous cover by Roz Chast, no less (I want one

Fabio Parasecoli.  Gastronativism: Food, Politics and Globalization.  Columbia University Press, 2021.  (226 pages) My NYU colleague, Fabio Parasecoli, has just published this one.  I blurbed it: Fabio Parasecoli draws on his deep international experience in this thoughtful analysis of how food

Today, we celebrate Juneteenth, the day slavery ended in Texas. Here’s a quick introduction to the food traditions, courtesy of the food historian Michael Twitty and Oprah Winfrey. If you want to dig deeper, there is plenty to work with.  For starters: And anything by Michael Twitty is worth

Jessica Harris. Vintage Postcards from the African World: In the Dignity of Their Work and the Joy of Their Play.  University of Mississippi Press, 2020. I reviewed this book for Food, Culture, and Society, which published my review online on July 23, 2020.  It won’t appear in print until