Practicing Food Studies

"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"--