Feeding New Orleans
Celebrity Chefs and Reimagining Food Justice
By Jeanne K. Firth

Approx. 224 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 22 halftones, 1 map, 2 tables
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Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4696-7633-3
Published: December 2023 -
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4696-7632-6
Published: December 2023
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Jeanne K. Firth documents the growth of celebrity humanitarianism, viewing the phenomenon through the lens of feminist ethnography to understand how elite philanthropy is raced, classed, and gendered. Firth finds that cultures of sexism in the restaurant industry also infuse chef-led philanthropic initiatives. As she examines this particular flavor of elite, celebrity-based philanthropy, Firth illuminates the troubled relationships between consumerism, food justice movements, and public-private partnerships in development and humanitarian aid.
About the Author
Jeanne K. Firth holds a PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science. She was on the founding staff team of Grow Dat Youth Farm in New Orleans, a food justice organization which is now the largest urban farm in the city.
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"Well written and engaging throughout, Feeding New Orleans illustrates that you can't divorce food from larger issues of food access, displacement, labor conditions, and inequality in creative communities. Using the rise of celebrity chef philanthropy in post–Hurricane Katrina New Orleans as a case study, she examines how such charitable acts become a major driver of development—and the issues of inequality and longevity that such trends raise."—Deborah Harris, Texas State University