Because food is everything. Our collection of titles in food studies analyzes the resources and practices that have sustained human societies since their inception. When we eat, we consume not only food on the plate but also the lives and labors of innumerable plants, animals, and people, and the process distributes its costs unevenly across race, class, gender, and other social categories. Our publication program gives home to works in the humanities and social sciences that seek to describe these impacts by using food as a critical lens to examine broader cultural, environmental, and ethical issues.
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.
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...
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...
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...
