The June 10, 2010, issue of The New York Review of Books features an essay by Michael Pollan titled “The Food Movement, Rising.” The piece touches on food safety, animal welfare, the environment, the campaign to combat obesity, Slow Food, and closes by highlighting Janet Flammang’s new book The Taste for Civilization: Food, Politics, and Civil Society.

“Provocative. . . . Flammang makes a convincing case for the centrality of food work and shared meals, much along the lines laid down by Carlo Petrini and Alice Waters, but with more historical perspective and theoretical rigor.”