This book focuses on the rhetoric of food and the power dimensions that intersect this most fundamental but increasingly popular area of ideology and practice, including politics, culture, lifestyle, identity, advertising, environment, and economy.

Table of Contents

• List of Figures
• Foreword - RAYMIE E. MCKERROW
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction - JOSHUA J. FRYE AND MICHAEL S. BRUNER
• 1 The Operations of Nature - SIR ALBERT HOWARD
• 2 Empty Bellies/Empty Calories: Representing Hunger and Obesity - JEAN RETZINGER
• 3 Politics on Your Plate: Building and Burning Bridges across Organic, Vegetarian, and Vegan Discourse - LAURA K. HAHN AND MICHAEL S. BRUNER
• 4 “Food Talk”: Bridging Power in a Globalizing World - JOHN R. THOMPSON
• 5 Food, Health, and Well-Being: Positioning Functional Foods - ALISON HENDERSON AND VANESSA JOHNSON
• 6 Parsing Poverty: Farm Subsidies and American Farmland Trust - MAXWELL SCHNURER
• 7 Pardon Your Turkey and Eat Him Too: Antagonism over Meat Eating in the Discourse of the Presidential Pardoning of the Thanksgiving Turkey - CARRIE PACKWOOD FREEMAN AND OANA LEVENTI-PEREZ
• 8 Resignified Urban Landscapes: From Abject to Agricultural - NATASHA SEEGERT
• 9 Lee Kyung Hae and the Dynamics of Social Movement Self-Sacrifice - JOSHUA J. FRYE
• 10 Let's Move: The Ideological Constraints of Liberalism on Michelle Obama's Obesity Rhetoric - ABIGAIL SEILER
• 11 Spatial Affects and Rhetorical Relations: At the Cherry Creek Farmers’ Market - JUSTIN ECKSTEIN AND DONOVAN CONLEY
• 12 Revolution on Primetime TV: Jamie Oliver Takes On the US School Food System - GARRETT M. BROAD
• 13 The Man and the Cannibal: A Moral Perspective on Eating the Other - ALEXANDER V. KOZIN
• 14 On Establishing a More Authentic Relationship with Food: From Heidegger to Oprah on Slowing Down Fast Food - KARA SHULTZ
• 15 Narratives of Hunger: Voices at the Margins of Neoliberal Development - MOHAN J. DUTTA
• Contributors