Author: Elsa Howell

In the introduction to The $16 Taco, Joassart-Marcelli “explores the role of food in the transformation of urban neighborhoods, with a particular focus on...

As a person who eats chicken frequently, I was dreading the reading of this book and it surely did not disappoint. In chapter 1, Striffler talks about how chick...

In chapter four, I made some realizations about farmers markets and how they benefit the community they are centered in. Every individual farmers market is a di...

This book changed the way I see food in specific communities. I have a deeper understanding of how people are oppressed based on class and race and how that imp...

I found the reading by Victor Valle interesting because of the political nature surrounding Encarnacion Pinedo’ cookbook. She was an educated woman who wr...

I think it is interesting and important to bring the relationships between food and feeling into an introduction to food studies. Food is thought-provoking and ...

Overall, this reading expanded my view of food studies as a whole because of the specific, in depth definitions given at the beginning. The separation between t...