Food Voice Annotated Bibliography

Abstract

Below is a list of select articles and books from a variety of academic disciplines that clearly exemplify the idea of the food voice and its ability to communicate concepts of gender, community, and class, among other things, for individuals, groups, and society. There are many other scholarly works that could have easily been included, but for reasons of space, I list only those works that are commonly mentioned and cited by scholars in food. Other omissions include novels and movies, which are particularly appropriate media for conveying the food voice. Novels incorporating food voice which quickly come to mind are John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath, Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist. Sara Sulari's Meatless Days, and Anita Desai's Fasting, Feasting; and for movies, Tampopo, Babette's Feast, and Eat Drink Man Woman. My reason for not including these genres is that I want to concentrate solely on academic works which are sometimes challenging to locate given food studies breadth of disciplines and which are valuable for curricula and for one's own scholarship. To make it easier to determine which entries below are appropriate for specific curricula, I Indicate works about gender as g, culture and community as c, and socioeconomic class as s. The academic use of these works does not have to be restricted to courses about food: they can be helpful in any course examining the charged topics of gender, culture, and class. Food, as will be shown below, is an excellent tool for investigating these Issues. In fact, food is key to their study and understanding.