There exists the idea that stories about food should be easy to digest and palatable, that we should avoid the bitter aspects of our entangled food histories of violence, scarcity, and exploitation.
Matt Helm
Matt is a PhD candidate in English at the University of Iowa. He studies 20th-21st century American literature with an emphasis on queer literary celebrity and style.
Willa Cather and Kolaches along the Iowa Valley Scenic Byway
This summer, I am working alongside Iowa Valley Resource Conservation & Development to create a booklet that introduces readers to food traditions along the Iowa Valley Scene Byway, a 77-mile route where people of Belgian, German, Meskwaki and Czech decent (among others) live, work and eat...
