Food and Foodways is a series from the University of Arkansas Press that explores historical and contemporary topics in global food studies. We are committed to representing a diverse set of voices that tell lesser known food stories and to provoking new avenues of interdisciplinary research. Our strengths are works in the humanities and social sciences that use food as a critical lens to examine broader cultural, environmental, and ethical issues. In addition to scholarly books, we publish creative nonfiction that explores these topics with a focus on food’s sensory dimensions.
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Feeding ourselves has long entangled human beings within complicated moral puzzles of social injustice and environmental destruction. When we eat, we consume not only food on the plate but also the lives and labors of innumerable plants, animals, and people. This process distributes its costs unevenly across race, class, gender, and other social categories. The production and distribution of food often obscures these material and cultural connections, impeding honest assessments of our impacts on the world around us. By taking these relationships seriously, the Food and Foodways series provides a new collection of critical studies that analyze the cultural and environmental relationships that have sustained human societies.
We welcome submissions from authors and editors in all methodological corners of the humanities and social sciences who approach food from these critical perspectives.
Series Editor
Jennifer Jensen Wallach teaches food history and African American history at the University of North Texas. She is the author or editor of seven books including How America Eats: A Social History of U.S. Food and Culture, American Appetites: A Documentary Reader, Dethroning the Deceitful Pork Chop: Rethinking African American Foodways from Slavery to Obama, and The Routledge History of American Foodways.
Series Editor
Michael Wise teaches environmental history at the University of North Texas and specializes in the history of food and animal-human relationships. He is the author of Producing Predators: Wolves, Work, and Conquest in the Northern Rockies as well as the editor of The Routledge History of American Foodways.
Native Foods: Agriculture, Indigeneity, and Settler Colonialism in American History by Michael D. Wise has been reviewed in the Journal of Southern History. “Wise provides an enticing taste of the emerging field of Indigenous food history. The most satisfying portions...
The University of Arkansas Press is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of Chefs, Restaurants, and Culinary Sustainability, edited by Carole Counihan and Susanne Højlund. The centrality of food to the human experience always places it at the crux of global...
The University of Arkansas Press is pleased to announce that Pedaling Resistance: Sympathy, Subversion, and Vegan Cycling, edited by Carol J. Adams and Michael D. Wise, is now available. Vegans and cyclists are often outsiders, negotiating food systems and built...
The University of Arkansas Press is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of Pedaling Resistance: Sympathy, Subversion, and Vegan Cycling, edited by Carol J. Adams and Michael D. Wise. Vegans and cyclists are often outsiders, negotiating food systems and...
The University of Arkansas Press is pleased to announce that Native Foods: Agriculture, Indigeneity, and Settler Colonialism in American History by Michael D. Wise is now available. In Native Foods: Agriculture, Indigeneity, and Settler Colonialism in American...
Beer Places: The Microgeographies of Craft Beer, edited by Daina Cheyenne Harvey, Ellis Jones, and Nathaniel G. Chapman is now available. Beer Places is, most essentially, a road map for craft beer, taking readers to various locales to discover the beverage’s deep...
The University of Arkansas Press is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of Native Foods: Agriculture, Indigeneity, and Settler Colonialism in American History by Michael D. Wise. In Native Food, Michael D. Wise confronts four common myths about Indigenous...
Race and Repast: Foodscapes in Twentieth-Century Southern Literature by Urszula Niewiadomska-Flis is now available. Race and Repast: Foodscapes in Twentieth-Century Southern Literature examines the literary foodscapes of the American South—from Jim Crow–era kitchens...
Four titles in the Food and Foodways Series have recently been adopted for course use. Mexican-Origin Foods, Foodways, and Social Movements: Decolonial Perspectives, edited by Devon G. Peña, Luz Calvo, Pancho McFarland, and Gabriel R. Valle, offers groundbreaking...
The University of Arkansas Press is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of Beer Places: The Microgeographies of Craft Beer, edited by Daina Cheyenne Harvey, Ellis Jones, and Nate Chapman. Beer Places will be published as part of the Food and Foodways...
