Category Archives: Ideas and Opinions

An Interview with Christina Ward, author of Holy Food: How Cults, Communes, and Religious Movements Influenced What We Eat—An American History

Posted on September 18, 2023 by Ed Battistella

Christina Ward is an independent cultural historian of food and food history, exploring what we eat and why we eat it. She is the author of American Advertising Cookbooks-How Corporations Taught Us To Love, Spam, Bananas, and Jell-O, and Preservation-The … Continue reading →

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An Interview with Thomas Dodson, author of No Use Pretending

Posted on September 13, 2023 by Ed Battistella

Thomas Dodson is an assistant professor and librarian at Southern Oregon University.  His story collection, No Use Pretending, was selected by Gish Jen for the Iowa Short Fiction Prize and is forthcoming from University of Iowa Press. He holds graduate degrees … Continue reading →

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What I’m Reading

Posted on August 6, 2023 by Ed Battistella

Romaine Wasn’t Built in a Day by Judith Tschann The words that we use for food and eating say a lot about the history of the world and they ways that humans build culture. In Romaine Wasn’t Built in a … Continue reading →

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An Interview with Judith Tschann, author of Romaine Wasn’t Built in a Day

Posted on July 11, 2023 by Ed Battistella

Judith Tschann is medievalist and Professor Emerita at the University of Redlands where she courses the History of the English Language, English literature, and Food in Literature, among others. She has a Ph.D. from Stony Brook University and has received … Continue reading →

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