Kelly’s incisive analysis demonstrates that taste represents a cultural fault line, one wrought with assumptions about clean, dirty, the self, and other. A must-read for those grappling with the complex intersection of rhetoric and foodways.

Justin Eckstein, Pacific Lutheran University

Food Television and Othernessin the Age of Globalization asks important questions about the ways identity is mediated through food in the swirl of contradictory globalization. Kelly helps us see how food shapes the historical relations between culture and power in ways that both tantalize and threaten. This is a compelling work of media criticism.

Donovan Conley, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

In Food Television and Otherness in the Age of Globalization, Professor Kelly does much more than offer a critique of food based television programming. Kelly explores the very nature of representation through careful, diligent, and close examinations of contemporary food based television. In so doing, Kelly explores the very production of meaning centered around Western audiences and offers an essential read for those interested in, or concerned about, the struggles inherent in shared social experiences.

Derek Buescher, University of Puget Sound