Why are so many literary texts preoccupied with food? The Literature of Food explores this question by looking at the continually shifting relationship between

This volume examines food as subject, form, landscape, polemic, and aesthetic statement in literature. With essays analyzing food and race, queer food, intoxica

Literature and Food Studies introduces readers to a growing interdisciplinary field by examining literary genres and cultural movements as they engage with the

This Companion rethinks food in literature from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales to contemporary food blogs, and recovers cookbooks as literary texts.

The essays collected here explore the power and sensuality that food engenders within literature. The book permits the reader to sample food as a rhetorical str