VIRTUAL EVENT
***7:00 PM EST***
In an age of mass factory farming, processed and pre-packaged meals, and unprecedented food waste, how does one eat ethically?
MOFAD is excited to host a virtual panel on “Good Eats and Eating Ethically” featuring co-editors Jennifer Cognard-Black and Melissa A. Goldthwaite, nutrition and food studies pioneer Marion Nestle, and author and founding co-ED and Farm Director of Soul Fire Farm in Grafton, New York, Leah Penniman. This panel celebrates the publication of Good Eats: 32 Writers on Eating Ethically (published by NYU Press) which features the stories of real people—real bellies, real bodies—including the writers themselves, who seek to understand the experiences, cultures, histories, and systems that have shaped their eating and their ethics.
Good Eats is co-edited by Jennifer Cognard-Black, Professor of English St. Mary’s College of Maryland and author of several books, and Melissa A. Goldthwaite, Professor of English at Saint Joseph’s University and the author, editor, or co-editor of many books, who previously collaborated on Books That Cook: The Making of a Literary Meal (NYU Press). For their latest text, they bring together a highly diverse ensemble of award-winning writers, chefs, farmers, activists, and educators invites viewers to think about what it means to eat according to individual and collective values.
A wide array of themes, topics, and perspectives inform the selections within Good Eats, contributing to an enhanced understanding of how we eat as individuals and in groups. From factory farming and the exploitative labor practices surrounding chocolate production, to Indigenous foodways and home and community gardens, the topics featured in this collection describe the wider context of sustenance and ethical choices.
Copies of Good Eats: 32 Writers on Eating Ethically by Jennifer Cognard-Black and Melissa A. Goldthwaite are available for purchase from NYU Press. Use the code NYUP30 for 30% off the listed price. Tickets to the virtual panel are sold separately through MOFAD.
JENNIFER COGNARD-BLACK
Jennifer is Professor of English at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. She is the author or co-editor of several books and lecture series, including Books that Cook: The Making of a Literary Meal and an Audible Original, Books that Cook: Food & Fiction.
MELISSA A. GOLDTHWAITE
Melissa is Professor of English at Saint Joseph’s University. She is the author, editor, or co-editor of many books, including Food, Feminisms, Rhetorics and Books That Cook: The Making of a Literary Meal.
MARION NESTLE
Marion is Paulette Goddard Professor in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health, emerita, at New York University. She is the author of three prize-winning books, including Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health, What to Eat, and most recently, Slow Cooked: An Unexpected Life in Food Politics. She blogs almost daily at www.foodpolitics.com.
LEAH PENNIMAN
Leah is founding co-ED and Farm Director of Soul Fire Farm in Grafton, New York, an Afro-Indigenous farm that works toward food and land justice. Her books, Farming While Black and Black Earth Wisdom, are love songs for the land and her people. More at www.soulfirefarm.org.