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Q&A with Charlotte Biltekoff, author of "Real Food, Real Facts"
Oct 02 2024
In her highly original book, Charlotte Biltekoff explores the role that science and scientific authority play in food industry responses to consumer concerns about what we eat and how it is made. Real Food, Real Facts offers lessons that extend well beyond food choice and will appeal to readers interested in how everyday people come to accept or reject scientific authority in matters of personal health and well-being.
Nutrition Facts labels have a complicated legacy – a historian explains the science and politics of translating food into information
Jul 22 2024
By Xaq Frohlich, author of From Label to Table: Regulating Food in America in the Information AgeThis post was originally published on The Conversation.The Nutrition Facts label, that black and white information box found on nearly every packaged food product in the U.S. since 1994, has rece
Food and Ghosts in Peru
May 25 2021
by María Elena García, author of Gastropolitics and the Specter of Race: Stories of Capital, Culture, and Coloniality in PeruI never intended to write a book about food. And certainly, I never planned to write a book that critiqued the chefs credited for transforming Peru—the country of my birth
Not Just a “Still Life:” The Racist Messages Behind American Images of Fruit
Oct 22 2020
By Shana Klein, author of The Fruits of Empire: Art, Food, and the Politics of Race in the Age of American ExpansionStill-life paintings of food look innocent at first sight. Pictures of bowls bulging with oranges and grapes were fashionable in nineteenth-century American dining rooms, prompting