{"product_id":"edible-tales","title":"Edible Tales","description":"What if the syllabus were a menu? \u003cbr\u003e What if learning began with a bite? \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eEdible Tales: Folklore, Myths, and Food Narratives in Higher Learning\u003c\/i\u003e invites readers to the table, literally and intellectually, to explore how food stories shape knowledge, identity, ethics, and pedagogy. Structured as a twelve-course banquet, the book moves from forbidden fruits and mythic punishments to kitchen-table dialogues, classroom rituals, and contemporary visual art. Across chapters, contributors examine how food functions as law and transgression, nourishment and discipline, inheritance and invention. Eve's bite, Persephone's seeds, and Gretel's breadcrumbs are reread as moments where appetite becomes agency. Thanksgiving disasters become narrative laboratories. Off-calendar feasts and midnight breakfasts reveal how everyday rituals sustain resilience in academic and communal life. Olive oil tastings, medieval banquets, pupusa-making, and jollof debates demonstrate how foodways encode histories of gender, class, colonialism, migration, and belonging. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Methodologically, \u003ci\u003eEdible Tales\u003c\/i\u003e blends scholarly analysis with creative forms: scripts, recipes, stage directions, audio guides, almanacs, and lesson \"potions.\" The volume models how folklore and food narratives can be mobilized in higher education classrooms as rigorous, embodied ways of knowing. Contributors show how storytelling, shared snacks, sensory memory, and digital food archives can foster trust, critical reflection, and ethical engagement, particularly in interdisciplinary, humanities-based, and social justice-oriented pedagogy. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Designed for scholars and educators in education, folklore, cultural studies, food studies, and the humanities, \u003ci\u003eEdible Tales\u003c\/i\u003e is also an invitation to instructors seeking innovative pedagogy, to students hungry for meaning, and to readers who believe that stories travel best when passed hand to hand. Come hungry. Leave with stories. Pack the leftovers as questions, and carry them into tomorrow. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePerfect for courses such as:\u003c\/b\u003e Food Studies; Folklore and Mythology; Cultural Studies; Narrative Inquiry \/ Qualitative Research Methods; Curriculum Studies; Interdisciplinary Humanities; Anthropology of Food; Education and Social Justice; Gender, Culture, and Society; Teaching and Learning in Higher Education","brand":"Myers Education Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Product","offer_id":57533181526360,"sku":"9781975508098","price":43.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/edible-tales","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}