Related Guides
Background Sources
- Food Memoirs: What They Are, Why They Are Popular, and Why They Belong in the Literature Classroom hrough analyzing specific examples, the author identifies recurring themes of the genre known as the food memoir, calling attention in particular to its value as multicultural literature.
- Books That Cook: Teaching Food and Food Literature in the English Classroom The authors report their experiences teaching courses on food and food literature, arguing that these subjects have yet to be sufficiently appreciated as genuinely intellectual.
- The Bloomsbury Handbook of Food and Popular Culture The influence of food has grown rapidly as it has become more and more intertwined with popular culture in recent decades. The Bloomsbury Handbook of Food and Popular Culture offers an authoritative, comprehensive overview of and introduction to this growing field of research.
- The Routledge companion to travel writing The Routledge Companion to Travel Writing examines: Key debates within the field, including postcolonial studies, gender, sexuality and visual culture; Historical and cultural contexts, tracing the evolution of travel writing across time and over cultures; Different styles, modes and themes of travel writing, from pilgrimage to tourism; Imagined geographies, and the relationship between travel writing and the social, ideological and occasionally fictional constructs through which we view the
- The Oxford Companion to Food Over 3,000 entries on every possible food, its history, cultural significance, and culinary usage.
