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Sometimes a new phrase gets coined in food writing, and a few years later you wonder how you wrote without it: think Crosby's 'Columbian exchange' or Long's 'culinary tourism.' In five years we'll wonder how we did without 'culinary capital' to talk intelligently about contemporary food and foodways. Zachary Nowak, Director, Food Studies Program The Umbra Institute, Perugia, Italy

Sometimes a new phrase gets coined in food writing, and a few years later you wonder how you wrote without it: think Crosby's 'Columbian exchange' or Long's 'culinary tourism.' In five years we'll wonder how we did without 'culinary capital' to talk intelligently about contemporary food and foodways. Zachary Nowak, Director, Food Studies Program The Umbra Institute, Perugia, Italy This is a ground-breaking study that will no doubt be used by undergraduates, graduate students, scholars and laypeople. It will challenge those of us in cultural and food studies to really consider the importance of culinary capital and the ways in which it is performed and thus permeates even the most quotidian areas of our lives. Culinary Capital will also provoke us to consider how we can reinscribe food with the very elitist tenets that we often work to dismantle. Psyche Williams-Forson, Associate Professor and Co-Director of Graduate Studies, University of Maryland, USA

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Peter Naccarato is Professor of English and Chair of the Humanities Division at Marymount Manhattan College, USA. Kathleen LeBesco is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Marymount Manhattan College, USA.

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