Although historians frequently use memoirs as source material, too often they confine such usage to the anecdotal, and there is little methodological literature regarding the genre’s possibilities an …

In How America Eats, Food historian Jennifer Wallach examines how Americans have produced food, cooked, and filled their stomachs from the colonial era to the present. Due to the complex history of c …

Jennifer Jensen Wallach’s nuanced history of black foodways across the twentieth century challenges traditional narratives of ‘soul food’ as a singular style of historical African American cuisine. W …

Beginning with an examination of West African food traditions during the era of the transatlantic slave trade and ending with a discussion of black vegan activism in the twenty-first century, Getting …

The Routledge History of American Foodways provides an important overview of the main themes surrounding the history of food in the Americas from the pre-colonial era to the present day. By broadly i …

The Routledge History of American Foodways provides an important overview of the main themes surrounding the history of food in the Americas from the pre-colonial era to the present day. By broadly i …

Jennifer Jensen Wallach’s nuanced history of black foodways across the twentieth century challenges traditional narratives of "soul food" as a singular style of historical African American …

Jennifer Jensen Wallach’s nuanced history of black foodways across the twentieth century challenges traditional narratives of "soul food" as a singular style of historical African American …

The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) arrived in Arkansas in October 1962 at the request of the Arkansas Council on Human Relations, the state affiliate of the Southern Regional Counci …

In 1970 Brown v. Board of Education was sixteen years old, and fifteen years had passed since the Brown II mandate that schools integrate "with all deliberate speed." Still, after all this …

Designed to appeal to students of history and foodies alike, American Appetites, the first book in the University of Arkansas Press’s new Food and Foodways series, brings together compelling firsthan …

2016 Choice Outstanding Academic Title2017 Association for the Study of Food and Society Award, best edited collection.The fifteen essays collected in Dethroning the Deceitful Pork Chop utilize a wid …