Food Studies
Submit Recipes and Essays to RWSA’s Cookbook
Sharing recipes that produce our favorite dishes is a form of intimate conversation.
Activism
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?
Food Studies
Farm Women, Dairymaids, and the Welfare State: Story of an International Collaboration
International collaborations are very fruitful…offering new viewpoints on crucial questions about the present as well as the past.
Food Studies
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.
Food Studies
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.
Food Studies
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.
Food Studies
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?
Food Studies
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.