#Food-studies

The exclamation point is because this is my department’s long-awaited book ,for which I wrote the Foreword and part of one of the last chapters. If you are in the New York area, come to its celebration on April 1 at 5:3 p.m. at New York University’s Institute for Public Knowledge, 20 Cooper

Dwight Garner.  The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading about Eating, & Eating While Reading.  Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2023. 244 pages. This book was given to me by my editor at Farrar Straus & Giroux (which is publishing the new edition of What to Eat in 2025). And

R.C. Harris.  Party Food: A Partisan History of Food & Farming in America.  Common Ground, 2021 (147 pages plus an index). The author, a politics professor at Washington & Lee University, sent me a copy of her book, which I have now read. I love the cover. This is a book about the

David M. Kaplan.  Food Philosophy: An Introduction.  Columbia University Press, 2020. Philosophy can seem impenetrable and confusing.  What I so much like about this book is its crystal clarity. The clarity is evident from Kaplan’s first paragraph. This book examines some of the philosophical

Yesterday, the New York Times Magazine carried this advertisement: It’s from the University of California’s new Global Food Initiative: “Helping the world feed itself sufficiently and nutritionally—that’s the power of public.” I’m proud to be a graduate