How is food writing a means with which to document environmental change? This question has been keeping me busy for years and so I’m excited to share the essay that attempts to answer it, “‘The Bitter Taste of Extinction’: Writing the Environmental Crisis Through Food,” which was just published in The Literary Journalist as a Naturalist.

Edited by Pablo Calvi, this book is a scholarly anthology that proposes a deep discussion about the multiple ways in which narrative journalism has portrayed nature, human interactions with nature, and the global actions that have attempted to explore it, exploit it, harness it, dominate it, and protect it. This essay collection, in short, offers an academic framework for literary journalistic narratives about nature, and it was a delight to contribute a piece that both critiques and celebrates food writing as a genre.