TKE presents ONLINE | Priya Fielding-Singh | How the Other Half Eats: The Untold Story of Food and Inequality in America

The King’s English Bookshop welcomes sociologist and assistant professor at the University of Utah, Priya Fielding-Singh, Ph.D., for a discussion about her new non-fiction book, How the Other Half Eats: The Untold Story of Food and Inequality in America.  Fielding-Singh will be in conversation with Gina Cornia (Executive Director of Utahns Against Hunger) and Neil Rickard (Child Nutrition Advocate with Utahns Against Hunger).

This free, virtual event will take place on Crowdcast and you must register here to participate.

About the book:

Inequality in America manifests in many ways, but perhaps nowhere more than in how we eat. From her years of field research, sociologist and ethnographer Priya Fielding-Singh brings us into the kitchens of dozens of families to explore how—and why—we eat the way we do. By diving into the nuances of these families’ lives, Fielding-Singh lays bare the limits of efforts narrowly focused on improving families’ food access. Instead, she reveals how being rich or poor in America impacts something even more fundamental than the food families can afford: these experiences impact the very meaning of food itself.

Packed with lyrical storytelling and groundbreaking research, as well as Fielding-Singh’s personal experiences with food as a biracial, South Asian American woman, How the Other Half Eats illuminates exactly how inequality starts on the dinner plate. Once you’ve taken a seat at tables across America, you’ll never think about class, food, and public health the same way again.