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Weekend Reading . . .

9/14/2016

 
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If you haven't already, you should definitely be checking this out: The Graduate Association of Food Studies has come out with their Fall 2016 journal issue! The contents are amazing, written by intelligent and enthusiastic up-and-coming scholars across many fields and disciplines who study food. I was lucky enough to have joined onto this exciting organization close to its inception; through it, I’ve met some truly incredible individuals who inspire and inform my work. If you work in anything related to food, I cannot more highly recommend joining this supportive community by becoming a formal member. 
Visit https://gradfoodstudies.org for the whole issue!

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Selfishly, this issue is extra exciting because it’s a new opportunity to see my name in print, and my writing in publication. Even more exciting, I was able to help promote a thoughtful book that I found intellectually stimulating, historically well-researched, and extremely relevant to food conversations in twenty-first century America. In short, I authored a review of Rose Hayden-Smith’s Sowing the Seeds of Victory: American Gardening Programs of World War I (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 2014). Read it yourself here: Review of Hayden-Smith, Sowing the Seeds of Victory.

Just coincidentally, as I was looking for the cover-image of the book for this blogpost, I saw that around the same time I was first submitting my review to GAFS, my colleague Chris Deutch also reviewed it, on H-Net (cross-posted on H-Environment and H-War). Read his review here. We largely concur -- how validating!

Less selfishly again, you should definitely be sure to read my esteemed peer Darcy Mullen's article entitled, "Cartographic Communities of Locavores: Local Ideographs & Spatial Rhetoric". She takes a compelling look at what local food movements *mean* today -- and I mean that in the semantic, rhetorical, ideological senses; what does 'local' denote and connote? How can ideographic theory help bring clarity to such socio-spatial rhetoric?  
To read more of her work in her blog on food, and books about food, check out http://storiesofsoil.blogspot.com.​
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Image from Mullen's article. You know you want to read this.

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