2019 John Egerton Prize Winner: Sarah Bowen
In 2019, SFA honored Sarah Bowen, co-author of Pressure Cooker: Why Home Cooking Won’t Solve Our Problems and What We Can Do About It. Her work as a sociologist at North Carolina State University focuses on food system inequalities. Based on ethnographic observations and community work with 124 North Carolina families over 5 years, her book argues that, when our society valorizes family meals as solutions to social problems, we shift disproportionate burdens to families and especially mothers.
Applying Pressure from Southern Foodways on Vimeo.