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How can preparing, consuming, or sharing food tell stories about our shared human experience? How have authors written about food to create space for that experience, and can we argue that food is a platform that speaks as loudly about culture and experience as any traditional written form—particularly when wielded by those historically left without traditional means of accessing those written forms? In this course, we'll examine a variety of narrative works that explore the power of food as a platform for traditionally marginalized populations in the United States. By engaging with excerpts from cookbooks, narrative non-fiction essays that blend food writing and memoir, and film/television materials focusing on food, we will build a vocabulary of food as a social (and socio-political) entity that will then shape our interaction with scholarly essays. We'll respond to these works through an equally broad range of writing activities and in-class presentations: ranging from the foundational academic essay to personalized narrative non-fiction.