Food

Description

Read. Write. Oxford.

From the hearty dishes of the American South to hotly debated GMOs, Food: A Reader for Writers serves up articles from a wide range of cultures, economic strata, and moments in time. It covers food's relationship to such topics as memory and identity, politics and health, the environment and economy, and travel and worldviews.

Developed for courses in first-year writing, Food: A Reader for Writers includes an interdisciplinary mix of public, academic, and cultural reading selections, providing students with the rhetorical knowledge and analytical strategies required to participate effectively in discussions about food and culture.

Food: A Reader for Writers is part of a series of brief, single-topic readers from Oxford University Press designed for today's college writing courses. Each reader in this series approaches a topic of contemporary conversation from multiple perspectives.

Table of Contents

Preface
1. Food as Memory and Identity
M.F.K. Fisher, "The Gastronomical Me." An Excerpt
Sheila Squillante, "Four Menus." from Brevity
Douglas Bauer, "What Was Served." from Fried Walleye and Cherry Pie
Shoba Narayan, "The God of Small Feasts." Gourmet.com
Roy Ahn, "Home Run: My Journey Back to Korean Food." Gastronomica
David Sedaris, "Tasteless." The New Yorker
2. Food and Environment
Wendell Berry, "The Pleasures of Eating." from What Are People For?
Peter Meehan, "Seafarming at the End of the World." Lucky Peach
Joel Salatin, "Sowing Dissent (Interview with Tracy Frisch)." Sun Magazine
Todd Kliman, "The Meaning of Local." Washingtonian.com 2013
Jon Entine and JoAnna Wendel, "2000+ Reasons Why GMOs Are Safe to Eat and Environmentally Sustainable." Forbes
Robin Mather, "The Threats from Genetically Modified Foods." MotherEarthNews.com
Hank Shaw, "On Killing." Honest-food.net 2011
3. The Politics of Food
David Foster Wallace, "Consider the Lobster." Gourmet
Julie Guthman, "Can't Stomach It: How Michael Pollan et al. Made Me Want to Eat Cheetos." Gastronomica
Psyche Williams-Forson, "Suckin' the Chicken Bone Dry: African American Women, History, and Food Culture." Cooking Lessons: The Politics of Gender and Food
William Roseberry, "The Rise of Yuppie Coffees and the Reimagination of Class in the United States." American Anthropologist
Riddhi Shah, "Men Eat Meat, Women Eat Chocolate: How Food Gets Gendered." Salon
B. R. Myers, "The Moral Crusade Against Foodies." The Atlantic
4. Food and Health
David Zinczenko, "Don't Blame the Eater."The New York Times
Michael Pollan, "Our National Eating Disorder." The New York Times
Jennifer Wehunt, "The Food Desert." Chicago Magazine
Patricia Allen, "The Disappearance of Hunger in America." Gastronimica
Courtney E. Martin, "How to Address Obesity in a Fat-Phobic Society." Alternet.com
John Seabrook, "Snacks for a Fat Planet." The New Yorker
Marion Nestle, "School Food, Public Policy, and Strategies for Change." Ecoliteracy.org
5. Food and American Culture
Brett Martin, "Good Food Everywhere." An Excerpt from Gentleman's Quarterly
Beverly Cox and Clara Sue Kidwell, "A Native American Thanksgiving." LA Times
Josephine Beoku-Betts, "We Got Our Way of Cooking Things: Women, Food, and Preservation of Cultural Identity Among the Gullah." Gender and Society
Jack Hitte, "A Confederacy of Sauces." The New York Times
Jason Sheehan, "There's No Such Thing as Too Much Barbecue." National Public Radio
Food Stamps: Two Perspectives
Bill Turque, "Montgomery Officials Try Eating for $5 a Day." Washington Post
Jim Geraghty, "Lawmakers' Headline-Grabbing Food Stamp Diet." National Review
6. Food, Travel, and World Views
Lisa Heldke, "Let's Eat Chinese! Reflections on Cultural Food Colonialism." Gastronomica
Pico Iyer, "Daily Bread." A Moveable Feast
Tim Cahill, "The Rooster's Head in the Soup." A Moveable Feast
Coleman Andrews, "Venice: Everything Comes from the Sea." Departures.com
Anthony Bourdain, "Dead Heads." Lucky Peach
Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio, "Hungry Planet: What the World Eats." Hungry Planet
Jane Kramer, "The Food at Our Feet." The New Yorker
Anya Von Bremzen, "The Last Days of the Czars." Excerpt from Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking
Appendix A. Epilogue--Cooking and Culture (Recipes)
Appendix B. Researching and Writing About Food Sample Student Paper