Architecture and the Art of Dining: The Performance of Dining in Early America

Morgan Flaherty makes the case for Chapter Two of Bernard Herman’s “Town House” (2005).

A Poet’s Meditations as Entry to Critique

Megan Betz argues for Ross Gay’s poetry in “Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude” (2015).

Under the Feet of Jesus: Food Labor Dynamics in California’s Central Valley

Stacie A. Townsend makes the case for Helena María Viramontes’s 1995 novel, “Under the Feet of Jesus.”

Transgressing Food Rules: Children’s Food Consumption in Catherine Sinclair’s “Holiday House”

Ming Ming Cheung makes the case for Catherine Sinclair’s novel, “Holiday House” (1839).

Pineapple Poetry

Anke Klitzing makes the case for Paul Schmidt’s “A Winter Feast” (1990).

Narrative Craft

Molly MacVeagh argues for Lauren Michele Jackson’s essay, “The White Lies of Craft Culture” (2017).

Who Sets the Table?

Alaina Spencer makes the case for Patricia Allen’s “Together at the Table” (2004).

The Radical Power of “Do-Nothing” Farming

Zachary Goldberg makes the case for Masanobu Fukuoka’s “The One-Straw Revolution” (1978).

From the Editor: We Need to Talk About Empire

In this seventh issue of the Journal, Catherine Peters writes that food studies must urgently grapple with settler colonial and imperial violence.

From the Book Review Editor: Discontent with Food

In this seventh issue of the Journal, Edwige Crucifix introduces eight book reviews that present theoretical approaches to the field of food studies as well as address discontent with contemporary food systems.