Just a few of my current favorite reads
Blogs/Websites (I clearly spend too much time online)
Rachel Laudan: A Historian’s Take on Food and Politics
Food Politics by Marion Nestle
Food and Culture/Smithsonian
NPR’s The Salt
Ivan Day’s Food History Jottings
Cynthia D. Bertelson’s gherkinsandtomatoes
Gotham Center for New York City History
Michael Twitty’s Afroculinaria
Jan Whitaker’s Restaurant-ing through history
Regula Ysewijn’s MissFoodWise
Vox.com: Explain the news
Journals and print media
Gastronomica: The Journal of Critical Food Studies
Lucky Peach (in spite of its annoyingly smug vulgarity that doesn’t shock, but reveals an appallingly unimaginative vocabulary)
Books (the newest additions to the pile)
Laura Lindenfeld & Fabio Parasecoli, Feasting Our Eyes: Food Films and Cultural Identity in the United States (2017)
Paul Freedman, Ten Restaurants that Changed America (2016)
Anne Mendelson, Chow Chop Suey: Food and the Chinese American Journey (2016)
Bret Hinsch, The Rise of Tea Culture in China: The Invention of the Individual (2016)
Joy Santlofer, Food City: Four Centuries of Food-Making in New York (2016)
Marcia Reed, ed. The Edible Monument: The Art of Food for Festivals (2015)
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Edward Hopper, Woman Reading in a Hotel Lobby (1943)
The Historic Table 