Description: "What is food studies? How did it come about as an academic field? Where is it going and what's its impact? Faculty members and former graduate students of the NYU Food Studies program answer by sharing their experiences, their research, and their ideas about what's next. This collection of essays contributes to the reflection about the ongoing dialogue between food studies, the humanities, social sciences, and hard sciences, while mapping paths for intellectual and social engagement with food systems and its most urgent issues"--
Brief description: Marion Nestle is Paulette Goddard Professor in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health, emerita, at New York University. She is the author of three prize-winning books, including Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health, What to Eat, and most recently, Slow Cooked: An Unexpected Life in Food Politics. She blogs almost daily at www.foodpolitics.com.
Review Quotes: "NYU's Food Studies department has a lot to teach: about pedagogy, art, library sciences, the limits of traditional disciplinary fields, and the world beyond the academy. With essays that blend biography with analysis, this anthology finds the universal in the particular. Anyone interested in how to address the urgent practical questions, while confronting the systemic ones, will find inspiration in this fine anthology."-- "Raj Patel, University of Texas at Austin"