The intersection of food, authorship, and American identities has long intrigued me. Publications on this topic range from “The Proof of the Pudding: Of Haggis, Hasty Pudding, and Transatlantic Influence” (Early American Literature 31:2 1996) to Recipes for Respect: Foodways and Authorship in African America (Southern Foodways Alliance series Studies in People, Culture and Place from the University Press of Georgia, 2019) reviewed in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The Wall Street Journal, Journal of American History, Choice and other periodicals.
Hear my interview about Recipes with Professor Carrie Tippen on the New Books podcast
My work on Recipes for Respect led me to co-edit, with Laura E. Helton of the University of Delaware, African American Review‘s special issue on Arturo Alfonso Schomburg (54.1-2), now available http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/african_american_review
Right now I am pondering a couple of directions to take with my research: mid-twentieth century Brooklyn, New York or the career of a late 19th century Black Bostonian newspaperman–or both? Stay tuned.