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New Books in Food

 Marshall Poe

Interviews with Food Writers about their New Books

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Average duration
52 minutes
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512
Years Active
2011 - 2025
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Signe Rousseau, “Food and Social Media: You Are What You Tweet” (AltaMira Press, 2012)

Signe Rousseau, “Food and Social Media: You Are What You Tweet” (AltaMira Press, 2012)

The other day I found myself in a cooking situation that’s fairly common: I had a few odd ingredients–some oxidized strips of bacon, a withered red pepper, a bunch of half-wilted parsley–and needed t…
00:54:14  |   Thu 13 Dec 2012
William Kerrigan, “Johnny Appleseed and the American Orchard: A Cultural History” (Johns Hopkins, 2012)

William Kerrigan, “Johnny Appleseed and the American Orchard: A Cultural History” (Johns Hopkins, 2012)

Not many of us, not even the most ardent foodies, think of the crab apple as a fruit worth eating, much less extolling, but Henry David Thoreau saw something like the American pioneer spirit in this …
01:00:21  |   Sun 18 Nov 2012
Bob Spitz, “Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child” (Knopf, 2012)

Bob Spitz, “Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child” (Knopf, 2012)

I confess I knew nothing about Julia Child prior to reading Bob Spitz‘s new book. And yet, from the dramatic opening passages through its 500+ pages, Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child (Knopf…
00:37:41  |   Wed 14 Nov 2012
Catherine Higgs, “Chocolate Islands: Cocoa, Slavery, and Colonial Africa” (Ohio University Press, 2012)

Catherine Higgs, “Chocolate Islands: Cocoa, Slavery, and Colonial Africa” (Ohio University Press, 2012)

With elegant and accessible prose, Catherine Higgs takes us on a journey in Chocolate Islands: Cocoa, Slavery, and Colonial Africa (Ohio University Press, 2012). It is a fascinating voyage fueled by …
01:13:54  |   Wed 14 Nov 2012
John S. Allen, “The Omnivorous Mind: Our Evolving Relationship to Food” (Harvard University Press, 2012)

John S. Allen, “The Omnivorous Mind: Our Evolving Relationship to Food” (Harvard University Press, 2012)

Did Proust have it right? Does food, whether it’s a madeleine from an aristocratic childhood or the Velveeta mac-and-cheese my mom used to make, have a special significance for our memory, perhaps ev…
00:52:27  |   Tue 23 Oct 2012
Andrew P. Haley,

Andrew P. Haley, "Turning the Tables: Restaurants and the Rise of the American Middle Class, 1880-1920" (UNC Press, 2011)

Restaurants almost feel indigenous to American landscape, whether you're weaving past them by the thousands when you're driving through a metropolis on the East or West Coast or whether, like me, you…
00:52:32  |   Fri 07 Sep 2012
Roel Sterckx, “Food, Sacrifice, and Sagehood in Early China” (Cambridge UP, 2011)

Roel Sterckx, “Food, Sacrifice, and Sagehood in Early China” (Cambridge UP, 2011)

Roel Sterckx‘s book Food, Sacrifice, and Sagehood in Early China (Cambridge University Press, 2011) had me at drunken seances. (Drunken seances! Do you really need another excuse to read it?) It is …
01:09:47  |   Sat 11 Aug 2012
Merry White, “Coffee Life in Japan” (University of California Press, 2012)

Merry White, “Coffee Life in Japan” (University of California Press, 2012)

Merry (Corky) White‘s new book Coffee Life in Japan (University of California Press, 2012) opens with a memory of stripping naked and being painted blue in an underground coffeehouse, and closes with…
00:51:17  |   Fri 15 Jun 2012
Orla Ryan, “Chocolate Nations: Living and Dying for Cocoa in West Africa” (Zed Books, 2011)

Orla Ryan, “Chocolate Nations: Living and Dying for Cocoa in West Africa” (Zed Books, 2011)

When was the last time you ate some chocolate? If you live in the developed world there’s a strong chance that you’ve been munching on some fairly recently. At the basic level chocolate is an everyda…
00:49:43  |   Fri 27 Apr 2012
Cecilia Leong-Salobir, “Food Culture in Colonial Asia: A Taste of Empire” (Routledge, 2011)

Cecilia Leong-Salobir, “Food Culture in Colonial Asia: A Taste of Empire” (Routledge, 2011)

Hobson-Jobson was not just about administration and geopolitics- the language of Empire extended to its culinary endeavours as well. Thus chota hazri, tiffin,and curry puffs at Peliti’s were the thin…
01:08:25  |   Tue 13 Sep 2011
Eric Rath, “Food and Fantasy in Early Modern Japan” (University of California Press, 2010)

Eric Rath, “Food and Fantasy in Early Modern Japan” (University of California Press, 2010)

Cuisine in early modern Japan was experienced and negotiated through literature and ritual, and the uneaten or inedible was often as important as what was actually consumed. Eric Rath‘s recent book F…
01:20:23  |   Thu 04 Aug 2011
Danyelle Freeman, “Try This: Traveling the Globe without Leaving the Table” (Ecco, 2011)

Danyelle Freeman, “Try This: Traveling the Globe without Leaving the Table” (Ecco, 2011)

Danyelle Freeman, better known as “Restaurant Girl” and a judge on Top Chef Masters, is single. But if you are considering asking out the petite and spunky brunette, you are going to have to compete …
00:59:06  |   Tue 14 Jun 2011
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