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.
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...
The University of Arkansas Press is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of Race and Repast: Foodscapes in Twentieth-Century Southern Literature by Urszula Niewiadomska-Flis. More than a means to physical sustenance, food is culture, and studying food is a...
Rooted Resistance: Agrarian Myth in Modern America by Ross Singer, Stephanie Houston Grey, and Jeff Motter has been reviewed by Christine da Rosa in the December 2021 issue of Rural Sociology. “As a whole, this book offers a deep interdisciplinary analysis of agrarian...
Food Studies in Latin American Literature presents a timely collection of essays analyzing a wide array of Latin American narratives through the lens of food studies. Topics explored include potato and maize in colonial and contemporary global narratives; the role of...
The Provisions of War: Expanding the Boundaries of Food and Conflict, 1840–1990, edited by Justin Nordstrom, is now available. The Provisions of War examines how soldiers, civilians, communities, and institutions have used food and its absence as both a destructive...
To Feast on Us as Their Prey: Cannibalism and the Early Modern Atlantic, edited by Rachel B. Herrmann was reviewed in the March 2021 issue of the Journal of American History. “Europeans in the early modern world imagined the Americas and Africa to be full of dangers,...
The University of Arkansas Press announces the forthcoming publication of Food Studies in Latin American Literature: Perspectives on the Gastronarrative, edited by Rocío del Aguila and Vanesa Miseres. Food Studies in Latin American Literature presents a timely...
The University of Arkansas Press announces the forthcoming publication of The Provisions of War: Expanding the Boundaries of Food and Conflict, 1840–1990, edited by Justin Nordstrom. This collection of varied essays examines how soldiers, civilians, communities, and...
Jeanette M. Fregulia, author of A Rich and Tantalizing Brew: A History of How Coffee Connected the World will appear (virtually) at the Fayetteville Public Library on Wednesday, October 21 at 6pm. She has answered four quick questions for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette...
Kimberly Behzadi at Food Tank has shared a list of 22 fall books. Behzadi writes, "these 22 books provide insight into food access and justice in BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) communities, the injustices women face in the culinary world, the effects of...
