Category Archives: Food Studies
At Mam-maw’s Table
My favorite memories are of Sundays at Mam-maw’s kitchen table Continue reading
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Tagged cookbooks, cooking, foodways, RWSA conference
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Submit Recipes and Essays to RWSA’s Cookbook
Sharing recipes that produce our favorite dishes is a form of intimate conversation. Continue reading
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Tagged cookbooks, cooking, foodways, new publications, recipes, RWSA conference
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Women Leading Landscape Change
Land is power. Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Food Studies
Tagged activism, Environmental Studies, environmentalism, Iowa, land ownership, photography, storytelling, sustainability
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From Garlic to Grocery: turning empty trucks into bigger business for rural Minnesota
How can we connect rural grocers and farmers to overcome food deserts? Continue reading
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Tagged activism, farm labor, marketing, research, sustainability, urban/rural divide
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On Feminism, Food, Fun, and Scholarship
Feminism, food, and fun made “Tamale Making and Storytelling” one of the most productive academic panels Salmanson has ever attended. Continue reading
Harriette Cushman: A Life in Poems
Extension Service topic specialist Harriette Cushman oversaw a multi-faceted poultry program. She loved her job, but writing poetry was her passion. Continue reading
All Cooped Up: Gender and Chicken Industry after the Second World War
After the Second World War, the development of agribusiness exploded with unprecedented ferocity. Out of all of the changes that agribusinesses attempted to impress upon farming communities, a reorientation of gender roles may be the most profound. Continue reading
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Tagged agribusiness, agriculture, farm labor, history, poultry, technology
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The Olive Garden Lady and Rural Middle American Culture
Why did Marilyn Hagerty “go viral” after more than fifty years writing for the same small newspaper? Continue reading
Going Cage Free: Using Rural History in the Classroom
The history of rural spaces … is an essential component of understanding our interconnected past and adding to our future. Continue reading
When Scholars Collaborate: New Book on Rural Women
The essays in this volume profile women whose work was embedded in specific national contexts and together they form a collective biography of women who graduated into a world that was not always prepared to welcome them into the public life that professions demanded. Continue reading