Research Guides: WRDS 1104: The Rhetoric of Food: Finding Books

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Food Across Borders by Matt Garcia (Editor)
Call Number: 3rd Floor GT2853.N7 F66 2017
ISBN: 9780813591964
Publication Date: 2017-10-17
The stories told in Food Across Borders highlight the contiguity between the intimate decisions we make as individuals concerning what we eat and the social and geopolitical processes we enact to secure nourishment, territory, and belonging.
Learning, food, and sustainability: sites for resistance and change by Sumner, Jennifer, editor.
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 1137539046
Publication Date: 2016
This edited volume explores the intersection of learning and food, both within and beyond the classroom, all within the context of sustainability.
Food, Genes, and Culture by Gary Paul Nabhan
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 1610914937
Publication Date: 2013-09-24
In Food, Genes, and Culture, renowned ethnobotanist Gary Nabhan shows why the perfect diet for one person could be disastrous for another.
Cuisine and Empire by Rachel Laudan
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 0520286316
Publication Date: 2015-04-03
Rachel Laudan tells the remarkable story of the rise and fall of the world's great cuisines--from the mastery of grain cooking some twenty thousand years ago, to the present--in this superbly researched book.
The Practice of Eating by Alan Warde
Call Number: 3rd Floor GN407 .W36 2015
ISBN: 9780745691701
Publication Date: 2016-01-05
This book reconstructs and extends sociological approaches to the understanding of food consumption. It identifies new ways to approach the explanation of food choice and it develops new concepts which will help reshape and reorient common understandings.
No One Eats Alone by Michael S. Carolan
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 1610918061
Publication Date: 2017-05-09
Carolan argues that building community is the key to healthy, equitable, and sustainable food. Carolan contends that real change only happens when we start acting like citizens first and consumers second. No One Eats Alone is a book about becoming better food citizens.
A Theory of Grocery Shopping by Shelley L. Koch
Call Number: 7th Floor TX356 .K634 2012
ISBN: 9780857851505
Publication Date: 2012-12-01
A Theory of Grocery Shopping explores the social organization of grocery shopping by linking the lived experience of grocery shoppers and retail managers in the US with information transmitted by nutritionists, government employees, financial advisors, journalists, health care providers and marketers, who influence the way we think about and perform the work of shopping for a household's food.

Suggested Subject Headings

Below are some common subject headings you can use to search in our library's catalog. Searches on most of these subject headings can be narrowed by specifying a geographic subdivision, in the form of the name of a town, region, or country: e.g. Dinners and dining -- France. It can also be useful to limit searches by era, e.g. “Dinners and dining -- France -- History -- 19th century” or “Food prices -- England -- Early works to 1800”.

Advertising -- Food	Food in popular culture
Asian cooking	Food industry and trade
Beer	Food industry and trade -- moral and ethical aspects
Beverage	Food preferences
Body image in men	Food preferences -- moral and ethical aspects
Body image in women	Food relief -- United States
Brewing	Food security
Cooking	Food stamps
Cooking, Mexican	Food supply
Diet -- United States	Gastronomy
Dinners and dining	Grocery shopping
Discrimination against overweight persons	Hmong Americans -- food
Famines	Hunger
Fasting	Hunting and gathering societies
Food	Liquors
Food - History	Natural foods
Food - Religious aspects	Obesity in women -- social aspects
Food - Social aspects	Organic living
Food consumption	Overweight women -- mental health
Food habits	Soul food
Food habits -- Mexico	Taste
Food habits --- moral and ethical aspects	Temperance
Food habits -- psychological aspects	Vegetables
Food habits -- social aspects	Vegetarianism
Food habits -- United States -- history	Weight loss -- social aspects
Food in art	Weight loss -- United States
Food in literature	Wine and wine making
Food in motion pictures	Women cooks
	Women in the food industry