Today on the show, guest host Nan Enstad spends the hour exploring the history of canned food with Anna Zeide, author of Canned. Their conversation opens up questions about diet and public health, affordability and class, food systems and labor issues, American consumerism, what it means to be a “foodie,” and more.
Anna Zeide is a clinical assistant professor of history at Oklahoma State University and a co-organizer of the OSU Food Studies program. She is the author of Canned: The Rise and Fall of Consumer Confidence in the American Food Industry (University of California Press, 2018), winner of the 2019 James Beard Award for Reference, History, and Scholarship.