Seeds of Colonial Capitalism in Kelly Reichardt’s ‘First Cow’
In her excellent film, First Cow, Kelly Reichardt explores the effects of colonial land theft and capitalism through the medium of food.
Katelyn Juerjens
Katelyn Juerjens is an English student at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago. Her work looks at the material production of food and how food becomes a symbol to mediate gender and race relations in US popular culture and literary fiction.
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Cookbooks and Contagion: Recipes for Caring from Fannie Farmer
Cookbooks are rarely read as political or even narrative texts. However, alongside the recipes and lists of ingredients is often rich information about the ideologies and social structures that the foods are consumed within.