Taking Food Public: Redefining Foodways in a Changing World

The field of food studies has been growing rapidly over the last thirty years and has exploded since the turn of the century. Scholars from an array of disciplines have trained fresh theoretical and methodological approaches onto new dimensions of the human relationship to food. This anthology capitalizes on this particular cultural moment to bring to the fore recent scholarship from some new and established voices and that have been pushing the limits of the field into ever more fascinating and innovative directions.It integrates understandings of the intertwining of race, class, gender, region, sexuality and ethnic/national identity in the human experience of food and explores how this intertwining is manifest in extraordinary forms of food production and consumption, in mass media performances of cooking and eating, in redefinitions of foodways throughout Diasporas, in identities around food, and in food activism.Most important, this bewildering array of new academic insights into food and culture as well as the wealth of new "food trends" and "food issues" around the world cries out for original ways to frame, organize, and help "teach" these new developments. Here are the right Editors to help write original, teachable, foundational essays and otherwise organize this disparate, exciting new material into a coherent whole.