Culinary Tourism

Contributors

Contributors AMy BENTLEY is an associate professor in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University. A cultural historian by training, she is the author of Eating for Victory: Food Rationing and the Politics of Domesticity (1998) as well as several articles. She is currently working on two book-length projects, a general history of food in the United States since World War IT, and a cultural history of the infant food industry in the United States. EVE JOCHNOWITZ, Yiddish instructor at Rutgers University and at The Workman's Circle Arbiter Ring, also teaches foodways at Living Traditions Klezkamp. A professional cook and baker, she is conducting a Jewish culinary ethnography for her doctoral dissertation in Performance Studies at New York University. She is the author of "Holy Rolling: Making Sense ofBaking Matzo," in Jews ofBrooklyn (2002), and "Senda Salami to Your Boy in the Army," in Remembering the Lower East Side (2000). Ms. Jochnowitz is also known as the Chocolate Lady. Lucy M. LONG (M.A. Ethnomusicology, University of Maryland; Ph.D. Folklore, University of Pennsylvania) is assistant professor, Department of Popular Culture, Bowling Green State University, where she teaches classes in folklore, traditional music and foodways. She has published on Korean ethnicity and food; Asian ethnic restaurants; Midwestern, Appalachian , Irish, and Spanish food traditions; food as regional symbol; food 298 I Contributors festivals; family foodways; holiday meals; and culinary tourism. Recent publications include IIHoliday Meals: Rituals of Family Tradition" in Herbert L. Meiselman (2000); IINourishing the Academic Imagination: The Use of Food in Teaching Concepts of Culture" in Food and Foodways; Stirring up the Past: The Grand Rapids Apple Butter Fest (a documentary video on a Midwestern food festival); IIImages of the U.s. in Spanish Food Packaging" (a website for a Spanish university). She is currently working on a reader on folkloristic perspectives on food and on an NEH-funded project on food as a humanities subject. She is also chair of the Foodways Section of the American Folklore Society and editor of Digest: An Interdisciplinary Study of Food and Foodways. KRISTIN MCANDREWS has published articles on gender, humor, and the images of the American West pertaining to the storytelling of women who work with horses. She has done fieldwork in Hawai'i, focusing on issues of land use and heritage tourism. Most recently, she was the project director for a lecture and performance series on five historical figures who influenced the culture of Hawai'i in significant ways. An assistant professor at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, she teaches composition and literature courses with an emphasis on folklore and food. JENNIE GERMANN MOLZ is a doctoral candidate in sociology at Lancaster University in northwest England. Her research focuses on the practices and narratives of round-the-world travel and the enactment of belonging in a global context. She has also written on American fast food abroad, including a chapter titled liThe Guilty Pleasures of the Golden Arches" that will appear in a forthcoming book entitled Emotional Geographies. JEFFREY M. PILCHER received his Ph.D. in Mexican history from Texas Christian University in 1993. His books include the prize-winning volume jQue vivan los tamales! Food and the Making of Mexican Identity (1998), as well as a forthcoming study of the Mexico City meat supply. His current research examines the globalization of Mexican cuisine. He teaches at The Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina. MlRYAM ROTKOVITZ, a native of Baltimore, studied theatre at Towson University, and holds an undergraduate degree in theatre and in American studies from Brandeis University. She worked as an actress in Boston and New York, before earning a master's in food studies from New York University, where she also studied clinical nutrition. A former associate Contributors I 299 editor for the James Beard Foundation, Rotkovitz now works as a clinical nutritionist in Brooklyn. She contributes regularly to the James Beard Foundation's monthly newsletter and to Beard House Magazine. JILL TERRY RUDY, an associate professor of English at Brigham Young University , received a Ph.D. in folklore from Indiana University in 1997. She developed her essay in this volume from teaching a senior seminar titled, "A Feast of Foodways in Life and Literature." She has presented papers on familiar and foreign eating experiences at the Folklore Society of Utah, California Folklore Society, and Passion for Place conferences. Her interest in food studies centers on...