Texts

Toni Morrison, “The Day and its Splendid Parts”

Chang-rae Lee, “Coming Home Again”

Veronique Greenwood, “How Ramen Got Me Through

Adolescence”

Climate Change Food Calculator

Adina Steiman, “The Best Grocery Store in America is Kalustyan’s”

Pete Wells, “As Not Seen on TV

Jia Tolentino, “Letter of Recommendation: Cracker Barrel”

Coral Lee, “C is for Colonialism’s Effect on How and What We Eat”

Dana Goodyear, “Grub: Eating Bugs to Save the Planet”

Jonathan Safran Foer, “Against Meat”

Sam Anderson, “I Recommend Eating Chips”

Jhumpa Lahiri, “Indian Takeout”

Chang-Rae Lee, “Coming Home Again”

New York Times Magazine, “Memories of Meals Past”

John Birdsall, “America, Your Food is So Gay”

Eddie Huang, Double Cup Love (excerpt)

Kimberly Yam, “Why the Outrage over Bon Appetit’s Pho Article is Completely Justified”

MFK Fisher, “A Thing Shared”

Shoba Narayan, “The God of Small Feasts”

The Sporkful, “Other People’s Food” (various episodes)

Sheila Squillante, “Four Menus”

David Sedaris, “Tasteless”

Robin Wall Kimmerer, “Three Sisters”

Interview with Leah Penniman from Vogue Magazine.

Yunxiang Yan, “On Hamburgers and Social Space: Consuming McDonald’s in Beijing”

Gabrielle Hamilton, “Killing Dinner”

Frank Bruni, “I Was a Baby Bulimic”

Michael Pollan, “Eat Food: Food Defined” , “Unhappy Meals”,  “Power Steer”

Nathanael Johnson, “The Swine of the Times”

Tyler Cowen, “Can You Really Save the Planet at the Dinner Table?”

Ligaya Mishan, “The Activists Working to Remake the Food System”

Von Diaz, “Von Diaz’s Essential Puerto Rican Recipes”

Mike Bunn, “How to Read Like a Writer”

Amanda Mull, “Instagram Food is a Sad, Sparkly Lie”

Dakota Kim, “We’re Having the Wrong Conversation about Food and Cultural Appropriation”

Anton Ego tastes Ratatouille (clip from the Pixar film Ratatouille)

Rachel Wharton and Koren Shadmi, The Story of John Young, the Original King of Buffalo Wings”

Muriel Alarcon Luco, “How Covid Accelerated a Fight against Food Deserts”

David Foster Wallace, “Consider the Lobster”

Sarah Evans,  “Is Prison Labor the Future of our Food System?”

“Colonization, Food, and the Practice of Eating”

Eric Holt-Gimenez and Breeze Harper, “Food – Systems – Racism: From Mistreatment to Transformation”

Winona LaDuke, “Seeds of our Ancestors, Seeds of Life” (video)

Margaret Visser, The Rituals of Dinner (excerpt)

Robert Kunzig, “Carnivore’s Dilemma”

Malcolm Gladwell, “Java Man: How Caffeine Created the Modern World”

Oliver Franklin-Wallis, “White Gold: The Unstoppable Rise of Alternative Milks”https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/jan/29/white-gold-the-unstoppable-rise-of-alternative-milks-oat-soy-rice-coconut-plant

Julian Baggini, “The Vegan Carnivore?”

Chi-Hoon Kim, “From Kimchi to Infinity”