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Food Stories

Food Stories

Navigating the Academy with Cultural Lessons from the Kitchen

Edited by T. Jameson Brewer and Cleveland Hayes

Published by: Myers Education Press

Series: Culinary Canvas: a Series on Integrating the Arts and Food Into Higher Education

Imprint: Myers Education Press

275 Pages, 152.00 × 229.00 mm

Paperback
9781975506988
Published: February 2025

£35.00

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Food Stories: Navigating the Academy with Cultural Lessons from the Kitchen is the first volume in the series Culinary Canvas: A Series on Integrating the Arts and Food into Higher Education. The purpose of the series is to explore the innovative integration of arts and food into higher education. Each volume aims to inspire a paradigm shift in academia, advocating for a more holistic, creative, and inclusive approach to learning, teaching, researching, serving, and existing in the academy.

In the present volume, Food Stories makes the case that food, and the culture surrounding food, is a closely held--and powerful--reality that shapes who we are as individuals, as members of varied communities, and invariably, informs who we are as educators and researchers. This book gives space for the authors to explore not only the impact that food and culture have had, and continue to have, on them as individuals, how that culture and experiences impact them as members of the academy (in teaching, research, and service), but also in providing some guidance to graduate students and junior faculty. In effect, chapters explore navigating academic work (teaching, research, and service) through the lens of food and the transferable lessons that can be gleaned from our grandmothers', mothers', fathers', and our own kitchens.

It is often the case that higher education fosters both imposter syndrome and a workaholic disposition that can be detrimental to teaching and research. What this book does, then, is to not only explore the ways in which what may seem as non-academic work such as cooking a meal can have on our work/life balance but, also, how to incorporate the very lessons of food into who we are as educators, how we teach, and how we can approach the work we do more broadly.

Through carefully curated chapters, this text presents a wide array of perspectives across food and cultural regions, as well as imparting insights from the academy from authors spanning the spectrum of the career. It is an important book full of valuable lessons for graduate students, faculty and teachers who wish to use its content in their classrooms.

Perfect for courses such as: Cultural Studies; Culturally-Responsive Pedagogy

Introduction

Chapter 1. The Academic Buffet: Navigating the Balance Between Education and Empanadas
by Mia Furman, Andrea Arce-Trigatti, and Dorota Silber-Furman

Chapter 2. Ordinary Ingredients: Hosting as a Pedagogical Practice
by Mark Stern

Chapter 3. "Stand There and Watch": Witnessing Cooking Methods in Black Studies
by Bonnie Samantha Maldonado

Chapter 4. Soul/le Credentials: Collards as Resources for Academic Participation
by Maria José Botelho and R. Jamaal Downey

Chapter 5. The Hawaiian Underground Imu: Possibilities Steaming Beneath the Surface of the Academy
by Ka ʻOhana Perry (Kekailoa Perry, Keri Perry, and Makualiʻi Perry)

Chapter 6. Ditching the Pipeline and Living the Curriculum of Bread
by Laura Jewett

Chapter 7. Louisiana Lagniappe
by Anissa Guerin, Kala Burrell-Craft, Jovan T. Thomas, and Kristin Robair

Chapter 8. Sihk jó faahn meih a?: Collectivist Healing Wisdom Lineages Embedded in Asian Foods
by Grace Poon Ghaffari

Chapter 9. The Southern Kitchen: Resistance Epistemologies Cultivated Through "Soul Food."
by Brandon Beck

Chapter 10. Feeling and Feeding the Immigrant Void in Academia
by Madina Djuraeva, Laura Walls, Ferial Pearson, and Sandra Rodríguez-Arroyo

Chapter 11. Inclusion Is Not a Microwavable Meal: Cooking Up Critical Embrace in Academic Communities
by Dennis L. Rudnick

Chapter 12. Reaching Back to Move Forward: Using Matrilineal Recipes to Create Kinship Within the Academy
by Dasmen Richards, Travon Jefferson, and Grace Tukurah

Chapter 13. Thinking Beyond the Chocolate Chips: A [Comfortable] Baking Journey Toward Scholarly Possibility
by Angela Kraemer-Holland

Chapter 14. Lessons for Hopeful and Hungry Academics: Conviviality, Community, and Rootedness Inspired Through the Sharing of Food and Kitchen Stories
by Joshua Hunter and Cheryl Hunter

Chapter 15. More Than (Just) Something to Eat: Reflections on How Food Invites Shared Learning and Renewed Commitments to Justice
by Sarah B. Shear and Andrea M. Hawkman

Chapter 16. Critical Lessons Learned While Making Cinnamon Rolls with My Son
by Brianne Pitts

Chapter 17. Pedagogies of Maíz: Living Ancestral Saberes and Cultivating Relational Teaching and Learning Practices
by Marial Quezada

Chapter 18. A Cross-Cultural Gastronomy: Feminist Narratives on Boundaries and Bridges
by Mila Zhu

About the Authors

Index

T. Jameson Brewer, Ph.D., is an associate professor of social foundations of education at the University of North Georgia. His teaching experience spans the middle school, high school, undergraduate, master's, and doctoral levels. Broadly conceptualized, his research focuses on the impact of privatization of public education by way of school vouchers, charter schools, alternative teacher certification, and homeschooling. Additionally, he researches the impacts of Christian nationalism on public schools and democracy. Find more at www.tjamesonbrewer.com.

Cleveland Hayes is the Associate Dean, Academic Affairs and professor of Education Foundations in the Urban Teacher Education Department at the School of Education at Indiana University-Indianapolis. Dr. Hayes teaches elementary foundations of education, elementary science methods, Critical Race Theory and qualitative research methods. Dr. Hayes's considers himself an interdisciplinary researcher. His research interest includes the use of Critical Race Theory in Education, Historical and Contemporary Issues in Black Education to include the school to prison pipeline, Teaching and Learning in the Latino Community, Whiteness and the Intersections of Sexuality and Race. He is an active member of the American Education Research Association (AERA) at the Division Level, SIG level and committee level. He has served as the Co-Program Chair for Division G and has served as a section Co-Chair for Division K and a member of the Special Interest Group Executive Committee. He was the 2019 President of the Critical Race Studies in Education Association (CRSEA). He is also on the executive board of the American Education Studies Association (AESA) and the current Division G, Social Context of Education Vice President. Dr. Hayes's research can be found in Democracy and Education, Qualitative Studies in Education, and Gender and Education, Urban Review, and Power of Education. In addition, he is the co-editor of the books titled: Unhooking from Whiteness: The Key to Dismantling Racism in the United States, Unhooking from Whiteness: Resisting the Esprit de Corps and Unhooking from Whiteness: It's a Process. Lastly, he is the Co-Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education journal.