Performing the Edible: Sustenance, Sensation, and Sustainability

Author:   Kristin Hunt
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Pages:   250
Publication Date:   13 February 2026
Format:   Hardback
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Performing the Edible: Sustenance, Sensation, and Sustainability


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Author:   Kristin Hunt
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
ISBN:  

9781032885933


ISBN 10:   1032885939
Pages:   250
Publication Date:   13 February 2026
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
Availability:   Not yet available   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements List of Contributors Shopping List Chapter 1: Introduction Kristin Hunt Mise en place Chapter 2: Four Gastro-biographies, Four Recipes and a Lonesome Banquet: Instructions for Cooking and Ingesting Two Philosophers and Two Political Leaders On Your Own Athena Stourna, with gastro-biographical recipes by Hara Yiannakopoulou Setting the Table Chapter 3: Culinary Canopies and the Sanitized Street Laurie Beth Clark and Michael Peterson Chapter 4: “Edifying Punch and Brandy”: Performing Food and Digesting Identity in Early Modern English Encounters Eunwoo Yoo Amuse Bouche Chapter 5: Piles of Rice Robert Farid Karimi Service Chapter 6: Eating and Feeding Made Strange: Three Event Scores for the ICU Gabrielle Sinclair Compton Chapter 7: Communion of a Bowl of Seaweed Soup with Familiar Strangers: from Mukbang to Live Performance in the Miyeokguk Project Jisun Myung Sorbet Chapter 8: Performing the drinkable: manifesting a wine’s terroir in performance Krysta Dennis and Roanna Mitchell Degustation Chapter 9: Feeding/Eating the Other: A journey through Entrails Thalia Hoffman Chapter 10: Culinary Creativity: Personal Taste, Deconstruction, and Food Design Paul Geary Entremets Chapter 11: Becoming with Wheat, and Other, More-Than-Human, Others Amanda Couch Digestion Chapter 12: A Taste for Snow Eggs: Edible Reenactment with the Black Pot Supper Club Elizabeth McQueen Chapter 13: From Food Parcel Recipes to #Foodbankhauls: Performing Digital Culinary Activism in an Age of Food Crisis Jenny Lawson Chapter 14: The Kelp Cure: More-Than-Human Dramaturgy with Seaweeds Sarah Blissett Mignardises Chapter 15: Delectable Viewing: Baking, Spectatorship, and Digital Theatre Kelley Holley Index

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Kristin Hunt is Associate Professor and Assistant Director of Theatre in Arizona State University’s School of Music, Dance and Theatre. She is the author of Alimentary Performances: Mimesis, Theatricality, and Cuisine (Routledge, 2018) and Gut Knowledges: Culinary Performance and Activism in the Post-Truth Era (Routledge, 2023).

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