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Consuming Prose: The Delectable Rhetoric of Food Writing
Lynn Z. Bloom

The author surveys various characteristics of contemporary food writing, identifying not only technical features but ways in which such texts shape and invite certain kinds of reader response.

Food Memoirs: What They Are, Why They are Popular, and Why They Belong in the Literature Classroom
Barbara Frey Waxman

Through analyzing specific examples, the author identifies recurring themes of the genre known as the food memoir, calling attention in particular to its value as multicultural literature.

Good, Clean, Fair: The Rhetoric of the Slow Food Movement
Stephen Schneider

The author examines the history and rhetoric of the Slow Food movement, relating it in particular to protests against globalization.

The Organic Foods System: Its Discursive Achievements and Prospects
David Nowacek and Rebecca S. Nowacek

The authors survey the history of struggles over the meaning of organic, emphasizing how these have involved associations that function as activity systems.

Books that Cook: Teaching Food and Food Literature in the English Classroom
Jennifer Cognard-Black and Melissa A. Goldthwaite

The authors report their experiences teaching courses on food and food literature, arguing that these subjects have yet to be sufficiently appreciated as genuinely intellectual.