Food Movement Voices: How to Create Change (MSFS-560)

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The course readings provided here are resources in the CIA Library or Open Access

There may be additional readings provided by your instructor.

Week One: Theoretical Overview:

• Three Minute Theory: What is the Rhizome? (on YouTube)

• Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari: Rhizome, in A Thousand Plateaus
• Investopedia: SWOT Analysis: How To With Table and Example
• D. Soyini Madison: Critical Ethnography: Method, Ethics, and Performance
• Hsiu-Fang Hsieh, and Sarah E. Shannon: Three Approaches to Qualitative Content Analysis
• Monica M. White: Freedom’s Seeds: Collective Agency and Community Resilience: A Theoretical Framework to Understand Agricultural Resistance

Week Two: Kitchen Table Conversations:

• Meghan, Harry, and Oprah Interview
• Food & Wine: Communal Table Podcast with Kat Kinsman
• Melissa Madeson: Seligman’s PERMA+ Model Explained: A Theory of Wellbeing
• Martin Seligman: PERMA and the Building Blocks of Well-Being
• Grace Young: Coronavirus Chinatown Stories

Interviews:

• Andrew Talks to Chefs: Black Food Professionals, Part 1, with Guest Host Scott Alves Barton

• Andrew Talks to Chefs: Black Food Professionals, Part 2, with Guest Host Scott Alves Barton

Podcast and Op-Ed Information:

• NPR: Starting Your Podcast: A Guide For Students

• Voices: How to Plan a Podcast in 2023

• The World Band: The Development Podcast

• Forbes: Data Visualization: The Best Infographic Tools Available Today

• Liz Lerman and John Borstel: The Critical Response Process: A Method for Getting Useful Feedback on Anything you Make, from Dance to Dessert

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• The OpEd Project: Op-ed Writing: Tips and Tricks

• New York Times: Tips for Aspiring Op-Ed Writers (Activate your Academic Pass to NY Times using your CIA email here to access NYT for free)

• Harvard Kennedy School: How to Write An Op-Ed or Column

• The Audacity to Podcast: Should You Script, Ad-Lib, or Outline Your Podcast Episodes? (audio)

• Castos: How To Write a Podcast Script

• We Edit Podcasts: Top Tips for Scripting Your Podcast

• American Psychological Association: How to Create Your Own Podcast

• Transom

• Edison Research

• Lower Street: How to Edit a Podcast: Audio Levels, Content, Tips, Trailers & More

Food Writers and Scholars:

• Annie Hauck-Lawson and Jonathan Deutsch: Gastropolis: Food and New York City Columbia University Press, 2009 (CIA eBook)

• Brian Russell Roberts and Keith Foulcher. 2016. “6-A Sheaf of Newspaper Articles: Richard Wright in Indonesia’s Daily Press (1955),” Indonesian Notebook: A Sourcebook on Richard Wright and the Bandung Conference. 25pp. Duke University Press (PDF posted to Moodle)

• Anthropology News: Refusal as Care

• Adriel Luis, et al.: The Color Curtain Project (on YouTube)

• Joanna Obenda: Memory Dishes: Women and African Diasporic Cooking (review ‘Meet the Families’)

• Joanna Obenda: Museum (browse)

• Candacy Taylor and Deborah Willis: Overground Railroad: The Green Book and The Roots of Black Travel in America (CIA eBook) and video here

• A Blade of Grass: Crafting a Space to Write, Cook, and Celebrate Black Women’s History and Our Mothers’ Kitchens

• Vice: Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor Is the Unsung Godmother of American Food Writing

• Every Dish Has a Story: Mapping My Food History with Von Diaz (on YouTube)

Farmers and Entrepreneurs:

• Rural Vermont: Northeast BIPOC Farmer Relief Fund

• Black Farmer Fund: Testimony Submitted by Melanie Allen on Diversifying Agriculture and Addressing Food Justice alongside Continuing Inequalities on our Food Systems

• Yale: The Black Farmer Fund: Building a Resilient Food System Through Community Investment

• The Center for the Humanities: Just Strategies: Pathways to Water, Food and Wellness with Jacqueline Pilati

• Southern Foodways Alliance: Ira Wallace: A Seed with a Story

• Live Kindly: For Lemel Durrah, Racial Equality Starts in the Garden

• TED Talk featuring Lemel Durrah: You Design You: Passion and Purpose (on YouTube)

• Teen Vogue: Meet the BIPOC Farmers Cultivating Green Spaces in NYC

• Chicago Tribune: Column: On the Site Where a Looted Liquor Store Once Stood, Teens Now Run Austin Harvest, An Open-Air Market Stocked With Produce, Flowers and Hope

• By The Hand: The Power of One

• CBSNews: Chicago Teens Team Up With NFL Player to Turn Neighborhood Liquor Store into a Fresh Food Market (on YouTube)

• Shoppe Black: Chicago Teens Transform Liquor Store Into Fresh Food Market

• How Chop Suey Saved San Francisco's Chinatown (on YouTube)

• The Untold Story of America’s Southern Chinese (on YouTube)

• Inside The Chinese Food Mecca of Los Angeles (on YouTube)

• Food & Wine: Compton Chef Lemel Durrah's Vegan Soul Food Mission

• Nourish (on Vimeo)

• Gilliard Farms

• TED Talk featuring Matthew Raiford: Legacy in the Soil

• Southern Foodways Alliance: Matthew Raiford: Just Try My Grandmother’s Sweet Potato Pie (on Vimeo)

• Entrepreneur: Before He Became a Revolutionary Coffee Roaster, He Photographed Revolutionaries

• Eater: Keba Konte’s Caffeinated Revolution

• Southern Foodways Alliance: 2001 Ruth Fertel Keeper of the Flame: Ed Scott

• Southern Foodways: Catfish Dream (podcast)

Carceral Food Stories:

• A Blade of Grass: Abolishing Prisons One Garden at a Time (on Vimeo)

• Solitary Gardens: About the Project

• Fix: Growing Hope

• The Counter: Flimsy Plastic Knives, A Single Microwave, and Empty Popcorn Bags

• Who Speaks For Me

• Amy Smoye: Cafeteria, Commissary and Cooking

Food Justice and Community Activists:

• The Nobel Prize: Wangari Maathai’s Nobel Prize Speech and Presentation

• Farm School NYC and Onika Abraham: What Every Farmer Needs to Know

• Bioneers: Malik Yakini - Food, Race and Justice

• Center for Nutrition Studies: Malik Yakini on Food Apartheid

• Bioneers: Panel Discussion - The Power of Matriarchy: Intergenerational Indigenous Women’s Leadership

• Bioneers: Panel Discussion - The New Deals We Need Now: Green, Red and Blue

• Atlas Obscura: The Cherokee Chefs Bringing Back North America’s Lost Cuisine

• Osiyo: Voices of the Cherokee People: Bringing Native Cuisine to the Mainstream with Taylor Barton

• Osiyo TV: Decolonized Cooking with Chef Nico Albert

• Southern Foodways Alliance: Greenwood Food Blockade

• Andrianna Natsoulas: Food Voices: Stories From the People Who Feed Us[LT3] 

• Andrianna Natsoulas: Why Hunger

• Rise Up Kingston

• UN Refugees: Earth and Agriculture Give Hope to Refugees

• Intersections of Agriculture: Racial Justice & Land Reform (on Zoom)

• WEACT: Peggy Shepard WE ACT for Environmental Justice Issues Statement in Response to the Energy Transition Accelerator Proposed by U.S. Climate Envoy John Kerry

• EcoWatch: Why America Needs Environmental Justice

• The Splendid Table: Episode 729: Saving Chinatown with Grace Young and re-review: Grace Young: Coronavirus Chinatown Stories

Chefs/Restaurants:

• Eater: The Philly Chefs Who Reinvented Themselves During the Pandemic

• Kimberly Brock Brown and Charleston Chef Kimberly Brock Brown is First Black Woman to Sit on Prestigious Culinary Board

• Eater: The Wisdom of Giants

• Xuhsworld: Zuhra Abdullahi

• Fair Kitchens and Fair Kitchens Videos and Articles

• The Center for Genomic Gastronomy

• Black Women for Wellness

• Southern Foodways Alliance: Prisoner Chefs

• Discover Puerto Rico 

• Eat Drink Share: El Burén de Lula (on YouTube)

• Blacksauce Kitchen

• African American Chefs Hall of Fame: Chef Joe Randall and Joe Randall

• BrigAID

• The Splendid Table: Let’s Talk Chinese American Food, Episode 692: Passing the Torch, Episode 716: Farm, Garden, Cook, Episode 668: Edna Lewis, An American Original, and Episode 686: A Conversation with Madhur Jaffrey

Art and Artists:

• Mattijs van de Port and Saborear Frutas Brasileiras - Savouring Brazilian Fruits (on Vimeo)

• Food of Life: Interview, Richard Pang (on Vimeo)

• TED Talk featuring Ben Houge: Food Opera – An Approach to Scoring Everyday Life (on YouTube)

• Michael Rakowitz: Enemy Kitchen: Chicago (on Vimeo)

• Agriculture: A Play in Five Acts (on Vimeo)

• Soup over Bethlehem (on YouTube)

• Edward Burtynsky: Films

• Kiyan Williams: Up Close: Notes on Digging (on YouTube)

• ArtForum: Rirkrit Tiravanija Cooks at the Moderna Museet

• JSTOR: Anyone Corporation and Rirkrit Tiravanija: Meaning is Use

• Southern Foodways Alliance: Delta Lebanese: Oral Histories

• The Splendid Table: Let’s Talk Chinese American Food (also listed under Chefs/Restaurants)

Key Historic Figures:

• Black Culinary History: Honoring Our Past. Celebrating Our Work. Building Our Future 

• George Washington Carver National Monument, National Park Service: George Washington Carver: For His Time and Ours

• Alabama News Center: Tuskegee’s George Washington Carver had Huge Impact on Farming, Food

• Small State Big History: African Americans in Rhode Island Who Used Food to Achieve Independence

Edna Lewis:

• New York Times: Edna Lewis and The Black Roots of American Cooking  (Activate your Academic Pass to NY Times using your CIA email here to access NYT for free)

• Edna Lewis Foundation

• National Women’s History Museum: Edna Lewis

• The New School: Culinary Luminaries: Edna Lewis (on YouTube)

Leah Chase:

• Garden and Gun: Leah Chase: Queen of Creole Cuisine

• Louisiana Public Broadcasting: Leah Chase: The Queen of Creole Cuisine (on YouTube)

• TED Talk featuring Leah Chase and Pat Mitchell: An Interview with the Queen of Creole Cuisine (on YouTube)

• New York Times: The Last Word: Leah Chase (Activate your Academic Pass to NY Times using your CIA email here to access NYT for free)

Georgia Gilmore:

• Washington University in St. Louis: Interview with Georgia Gilmore

• New York Times: Overlooked No More, Georgia Gilmore: Who Fed and Funded the Montgomery Bus Boycott (Activate your Academic Pass to NY Times using your CIA email here to access NYT for free)

• NPR: The Club From Nowhere: Cooking for Civil Rights

• Equality Archive: Georgia Gilmore

• Southern Living: The Story of Georgia Gilmore: This Montgomery, Alabama: Cook Helped Fund the Civil Rights Movement

Booker Wright:

• Booker Wright Interview - Mississippi A Self Portrait (on YouTube)

• Nolan Gasser – Repast: An Oratorio in Honor of Mister Booker Wright (on YouTube)

• Aspen Institute and Food & Society: Conversations on Food Justice

• Southern Foodways Alliance: Fighting for the Promised Land: A Story of Farming and Racism

SFA Keepers of the Flame:

• Southern Foodways Alliance: 2020 - Keeper of the Flame: Hanan Shabazz

• Southern Foodways Alliance: 2019 - Keeper of the Flame: Felton Hurst

• Southern Foodways Alliance: 2014 - Ruth Fertel Keeper of the Flame: Goren “Red Dog” Avery

• Southern Foodways Alliance: 2012 - Ruth Fertel Keeper of the Flame: Helen Turner

• Southern Foodways Alliance: 2010 - Ruth Fertel Keeper of the Flame: Peter Nguyen

• Southern Foodways Alliance: 2007 - Ruth Fertel Keeper of the Flame: Elizabeth Scott

• Southern Foodways Alliance: 2004 - Ruth Fertel Keeper of the Flame: Martha Hawkins

 

• Rick Flowers and Elaine Swan: Eating the Asian Other? Pedagogies of Food Multiculturalism in Australia, Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies: Imagined Transcultural Histories and Geographies Special Issue, vol. 9, no. 2, July, University of Technology Sydney (PDF in Moodle)
• Diti Bhattacharya: Sourcing, Sensing, and sharing Bengali Cuisine on the Gold Coast, in Food, Senses and the City, Edwards, Ferne, Gerritsen, Roos, and Wesser, Grit, eds., 143-155, Milton: Taylor & Francis Group, 2021. (CIA eBook, PDF of chapter in Moodle)
• Shuhua Chen: The Taste of Home Migrant Foodscapes in Marketplaces in Shantou, China, in Food, Senses and the City, Edwards, Ferne, Gerritsen, Roos, and Wesser, Grit, eds. 121-142. Milton: Taylor & Francis Group, 2021. (CIA eBook, PDF of chapter in Moodle)
• Melissa S. Biggs: A taste for Tapatío Things: Changing City, Changing Palate,” in Food, Senses and the City, Edwards, Ferne, Gerritsen, Roos, and Wesser, Grit, eds. 169-179, Milton: Taylor & Francis Group, 2021. (CIA eBook, PDF of chapter in Moodle)
• Matthew McAllester: Eating Mud Crabs in Kandahar: Stories of Food During Wartime by the World’s Leading Correspondents, UC Press, 2011 (A Diet for Dictators: North Korea, The Price of Oranges: Pakistan, Jeweled Rice: Iran, Same-Day Cow: Afghanistan, Eau de Cadavre: Somalia and Rwanda, and/or Sugarland: Haiti) (CIA eBook)
• Meredith E. Abarca: Charlas Culinarias: Mexican Women Speak from Their Public Kitchens, Food and Foodways in Taking Food Public : Redefining Foodways in a Changing World, edited by Forson, Psyche Williams, and Carole Counihan, 94-112. Taylor & Francis Group, 2011. (CIA eBook, PDF of chapter in Moodle)
• Arlene Voski Avakian: Through the Kitchen Window: Women Explore the Intimate Meanings of Food and Cooking, Oxford: Berg, 2005
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• Arlene Voski Avakian: Cooking Up Lives: Feminist Food Memoirs, Feminist Studies, Vol. 40, No. 2, Special Issue: Food and Ecology, pp. 277-303, 2014 (PDF in Moodle)
• Linda Murray Berzok: My Mother’s Recipes: The Diary of a Swedish American Daughter and Mother,” in Pilaf, Pozole and Pad Thai: American Women and Ethnic Food, Ed. Sherrie A. Inness, 84-95. University of Massachusetts: Amherst, 2001
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• Jim Drobnick: The Smell Culture Reader, Oxford: Berg, 2012 (Amazon link, eBook not avaialble)
• Marcie Cohen Ferris: The Edible South: The Power of Food and the Making of An American Region, 2016 (CIA eBook)
• Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney: Rice as Self: Japanese Identities through Time, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001. (CIA eBook)
• Ted. Ownby. Ed.: The Larder Food Studies Methods from the American South, 2013. (CIA eBook)
• David Evan Sutton: Remembrance of Repasts: An Anthropology of Food and Memory, Oxford, 2006. (CIA eBook in Bloomsbury Food Library)