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Not Just for Cooking Anymore: Deconstructing the Twenty-First-Century Trophy...

What follows is the abstract for the paper, “Not Just for Cooking Anymore: Deconstructing the Twenty-First-Century Trophy Kitchen,” which I had the honor to present in April 2012 at the Language of...

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From Domestic Space to Status Symbol: A Kitchen History Photo Essay

Later this week, I’ll be discussing not only trophy kitchens, but also the phenomenon of ornamental trophy cookbooks at the Roger Smith Cookbook Conference. Just as I’ve explored the phenomenon of...

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Cooking Up a Storm at the 2013 Cookbook Conference

I am freshly returned (to the fifth snowiest Boston ever) from the Roger Smith Cookbook Conference in New York City, an event drawing an eclectic mix of culinary scholars; food studies academics; food...

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What Does the Fridge Say? A Historical Photo Essay

A Big Chill refrigerator served with a side of nostalgia While we may now know less about what the fox says than we did before the autumn months of last year, the fridge has been saying quite a lot...

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Discriminating Taste: How Class Anxiety Created the American Food Revolution

“Gender, race, and class compose the holy trinity of feminist studies, or so we used to joke,” wrote Eileen Boris in 2013 in the Journal of Women’s History. “However,” she continued, “Class remains...

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