My Life in France by Julia Child5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() in History from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Benjamin Poole is Lecturer in History at Texas Tech University, where he teaches about the history of food, nationalism, race, and identity in modern Europe. ![]() His presentation discusses food writing's multiple non-fiction genres before suggesting ways to read Julia Child and Alex Prud'homme's co-authored memoir, My Life in France.ĭr. He has taught introduction to non-fiction courses on food writing, and has started a digital archive for community cookbooks of the South Plains. While his research primarily focuses on comparing regional American literatures, he finds time to compare regional varieties of barbeque and pies. Mike Lemon is a doctoral candidate in the English Department. ![]()
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