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Food Work
- The Massachusetts Review
- Massachusetts Review, Inc.
- Volume 56, Number 2, Summer 2015
- pp. 201-217
- 10.1353/mar.2015.0033
- Article
- Additional Information
In this essay, Phillips navigates her complicated relationship with food: growing up in a macrobiotic household, taking on the responsibility of cooking with two working parents; dining under the financial restraints of graduate school; facing the an eating disorder and deteriorating health; and, throughout, reckoning the complex cultural and sociopolitical underpinnings of our food choices and problems. Various food movements are addressed, assessed, and shot through with personal reflection.