Food

Food Memories: Utopian Visions?

By Etta Madden | July 11, 2020
I missed June's blog. I'm making up for it by referring here to a short blog that appeared elsewhere last month. I wrote "Koulourakia Cravings"...

Food: a Utopian Studies Special Issue

By Etta Madden | September 29, 2016
Idealized food practices have changed, I explain in the introduction to a 2015 special issue (26.1) of the journal Utopian Studies. Since Eating in Eden: Food...

Savory Bites

By Etta Madden | September 29, 2016
"Savory Bites: Books on Eating in Early America," appeared in Early American Literature 50.2 (2015).  On the hot topic of food and literature, it considers...

Eliza Leslie: Fun & Food

By Etta Madden | September 24, 2016
Selections from Eliza Leslie collects stories, recipes and other works by the nineteenth-century cookbook author and humor writer from Philadelphia. In addition to providing a biographical...

Eating in Eden: Food and American Utopias

By Etta Madden | September 23, 2016
Drawing from our interests in utopian communities and religious history, my co-editor Martha Finch and I highlight in Eating in Eden (U Nebraska 2006) American food...

Famous American Vegetarians

By Etta Madden | September 20, 2016
Vegetarianism is not a recent American trend, influenced by immigrant cultures and travel abroad. Waves of interest in meatless diets have surged and ebbed through...