Rebecca Earle

Rebecca Earle FBA is a writer and Professor of History at the University of Warwick. Mostly, she writes about the cultural significance of food and eating in the early-modern and modern world. She’s also written about Spanish American history. She is interested in how everyday activities like eating or dressing can shed light on big historical processes such as colonialism or the emergence of racial categories. She has authored five books and over forty articles and book chapters. Her most recent book, Feeding the People: The Politics of the Potato, uses the history of the potato to trace out some of the key features of modernity. She is currently researching the history of cookery books.