Category Archives: What People Are Reading

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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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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What I’m Reading

Posted on June 24, 2023 by Ed Battistella

Like, Literally, Dude by Valerie Fridland Like, Literally, Dude is one of those books that makes me wish I was still teaching, so I could assign it. Fridland, a professor of linguistics at the University of Nevada, Reno, brings together … Continue reading →

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An Interview with Erika Bare and Tiffany Burns, authors of Connecting Through Conversation

Posted on May 22, 2023 by Ed Battistella

Erika Bare and Tiffany Burns are the co-authors of Connecting Through Conversation: A Playbook for Talking with Students (ConnectEDD Publishing, 2023). Erika Bare currently serves as the Assistant Superintendent for the Ashland School District and has more than twenty years of experience … Continue reading →

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