New Books in Food

Marshall Poe

Interviews with Food Writers about their New Books

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Update frequency: every 5 days
Average duration: 52 minutes
Episodes: 512
Years Active: 2011 - 2025

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Stephen A. Harris, "50 Plants That Changed the World" (Bodleian Library, 2025)

Have you ever stopped to think about how your morning cappuccino came to be? From the coffee bush that yielded the beans, to the grass for the cattle – or perhaps the soya – that produced the milk, p…

00:45:53 | Wed 17 Sep 2025

Jessica B. Harris, "Braided Heritage: Recipes and Stories on the Origin of American Cuisine" (Clarkson Potter, 2025)

Discover the sweeping story of how Indigenous, European, and African traditions intertwined to form an entirely new cuisine, with over 90 recipes for the modern home cook—from the James Beard Cookboo…

00:37:48 | Tue 16 Sep 2025

Cup Overflowing: How Christians Should Think about Wine

“You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows,” wrote King David in Psalm 23. The overflowing cup is the image that Gisela Kreglinger use…

00:44:57 | Mon 08 Sep 2025

Brian Duff, "Restaurant" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

In the last few decades, restaurants and food culture have achieved extraordinary cultural presence. Chefs are heroes and thought leaders, well-executed entrées go viral, dining out has become theate…

00:43:02 | Sat 06 Sep 2025

Tom Wooldridge, "Eating Disorders: A Contemporary Introduction" (Routledge, 2022)

Eating Disorders: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge, 2022) presents an accessible introduction to the conceptualization and treatment of eating disorders from a psychoanalytic perspective. Each…

00:50:25 | Fri 05 Sep 2025

Anders M. Greene-Crow, "Austerity Measures: The Poetics of Food Insecurity in Early Modern English Literature" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025)

My guest today is Anders M. Greene-Crow. Anders teaches at the Woods College of Advancing Studies and is a former Professor of English at Boston College. More recently, Anders has been preparing for …

01:04:33 | Wed 27 Aug 2025

Every Purchase Matters: How Fair Trade Farmers, Companies, and Consumers are Changing the World

We all have the power to change the world through the products we buy. This simple premise has driven the growth of the conscious consumer movement for decades. Indeed, what started with a handful of…

00:57:38 | Tue 12 Aug 2025

Preserving Traditional Rice and Rice Culture in the Philippines

In the Philippines, rice serves as a fundamental component of the diet, typically accompanying most meals as either white or brown rice. It is also a key ingredient in various snacks and desserts. Co…

00:24:04 | Tue 05 Aug 2025

Yuki Kato, "Gardens of Hope: Cultivating Food and the Future in a Post-Disaster City" (NYU Press, 2025)

Gardens are often spaces of hope, expected to solve many problems in a city including food insecurity and climate resilience. In fact, there has been a historical trend of urban gardening gaining pop…

01:07:12 | Thu 31 Jul 2025

Kelly A. Spring, "SPAM: A Global History" (Reaktion, 2025)

The year 2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, a conflict that solidified SPAM’s place in global food culture. Created by Hormel Foods in 1937 to utilize surplus pork sh…

00:32:00 | Wed 16 Jul 2025

John Nott, "Between Feast Famine: Food, Health, and the History of Ghana's Long Twentieth Century" (UCL Press, 2025)

Ghana’s twentieth century was one of dramatic political, economic, and environmental change. Sparked initially by the impositions of colonial rule, these transformations had significant, if rarely un…

01:43:18 | Mon 14 Jul 2025

Michael Grunwald, "We Are Eating the Earth: The Race to Fix Our Food System and Save Our Climate" (Simon & Schuster, 2025)

Michael Grunwald is a well renown journalist, who over the last thirty years has focused on public policy and national politics, with the last fifteen years having him zeroing in or climate-related i…

00:46:39 | Sat 28 Jun 2025

Michelle Phillipov, "Digital Food TV: The Cultural Place of Food in a Digital Era (Routledge, 2023)

Michelle Phillipov's Digital Food TV: The Cultural Place of Food in a Digital Era (Routledge, 2023) explores the new theoretical and political questions raised by food TV’s digital transformation. B…

01:01:23 | Tue 24 Jun 2025

Matthew Allen, "Drink and Democracy: Alcohol and the Political Imaginary in Colonial Australia" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2025)

The nineteenth-century spread of democracy in Britain and its colonies coincided with an increase in alcohol consumption and in celebratory public dinners with rounds of toasts. British colonists rai…

00:55:10 | Mon 23 Jun 2025

Kathryn L. Beasley, "The Proof Is in the Dough: Rural Southern Women, Extension, and Making Money" (University of Georgia Press, 2025)

The Proof Is in the Dough: Rural Southern Women, Extension, and Making Money (University of Georgia Press, 2025) examines how rural white and African American women in Alabama and Florida used the C…

01:11:22 | Sun 22 Jun 2025

L. Sasha Gora, "Culinary Claims: Indigenous Restaurant Politics in Canada" (University of Toronto Press, 2025)

Culinary Claims: Indigenous Restaurant Politics in Canada (University of Toronto Press, 2025) by Dr. L. Sasha Gora explores the complex relationships between wild plants and introduced animals, Indig…

00:56:20 | Mon 16 Jun 2025

Barry W. Enderwick, "Sandwiches of History: The Cookbook: All the Best (and Most Surprising) Things People Have Put Between Slices of Bread" (Harvard Common Press, 2024)

Barry Enderwick has been making, eating, and sharing historical sandwiches for years on social media @sandwichesofhistory and recently in live shows. In Sandwiches of History: The Cookbook: All the…

00:42:08 | Sun 15 Jun 2025

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