Anna Zeide

Last updated
Anna Zeide
Born1984 (age 39–40)[ citation needed ]
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater
Known forFood history
Awards James Beard Foundation Award (2019)
Scientific career
FieldsHistory
Institutions
Thesis In Cans We Trust: Food, Consumers, and Scientific Expertise in Twentieth-Century America  (2014)
Doctoral advisor Gregg Mitman
Website annazeide.org

Anna Zeide is an American academic and author. She is an associate professor of history at Virginia Tech and writes on food, consumerism, and food systems. She was previously at Oklahoma State University.

Contents

Early life and education

Zeide was born on April 23, 1984, [1] and raised in a rural and forested region of Arkansas. [2] Her family were the only Jews in their town. The nearest synagogue was over two hours away in Little Rock, Arkansas. [3] Zeide's father was a Russian-Jewish immigrant. [2] She received a bachelor's degree and master's degree from Washington University in St. Louis and Doctor of Philosophy in History of Science, Medicine, and Technology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. [4]

Career

After receiving her doctorate in 2014, Zeide became an assistant professor of history at Oklahoma State University–Stillwater [5] and wrote on food, consumerism, and food systems. [6] [7] She won a James Beard Award in the Reference, History, and Scholarship category for Canned: The Rise and Fall of Consumer Confidence in the American Food Industry. [8] Zeide and her work has been featured on WORT, [9] KPFA, [10] BYU Radio, [11] WYPR, [12] KERA, [13] and the New Books Network, [14] and in the Review of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Studies, [15] Stillwater News-Press [16] and The O'Colly . [17] Her work about botulism has been published in the Saturday Evening Post and Smithsonian . [18] [19]

In 2020, Zeide left Oklahoma to become an associate professor of history at Virginia Tech and the founding director of their Food Studies Program. [5] [20]

Selected works

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Botulism</span> Human and animal disease

Botulism is a rare and potentially fatal illness caused by a toxin produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum. The disease begins with weakness, blurred vision, feeling tired, and trouble speaking. This may then be followed by weakness of the arms, chest muscles, and legs. Vomiting, swelling of the abdomen, and diarrhea may also occur. The disease does not usually affect consciousness or cause a fever.

<i>Clostridium botulinum</i> Species of endospore forming bacterium

Clostridium botulinum is a gram-positive, rod-shaped, anaerobic, spore-forming, motile bacterium with the ability to produce botulinum toxin, which is a neurotoxin.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Maraschino cherry</span> Preserved, sweetened cherry

A maraschino cherry is a preserved, sweetened cherry, typically made from light-colored sweet cherries such as the Royal Ann, Rainier, or Gold varieties. In their modern form, the cherries are first preserved in a brine solution usually containing sulfur dioxide and calcium chloride to bleach the fruit, then soaked in a suspension of food coloring, sugar syrup, and other components.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Corned beef</span> Salt-cured beef product

Corned beef, or salt beef in some Commonwealth countries, is salt-cured brisket of beef. The term comes from the treatment of the meat with large-grained rock salt, also called "corns" of salt. Sometimes, sugar and spices are added to corned beef recipes. Corned beef is featured as an ingredient in many cuisines.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Payne County, Oklahoma</span> County in Oklahoma, United States

Payne County is located in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. As of the 2020 census, its population was 81,646. Its county seat is Stillwater. The county was created in 1890 as part of Oklahoma Territory and is named for Capt. David L. Payne, a leader of the "Boomers".

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Stillwater, Oklahoma</span> City in Oklahoma, United States

Stillwater is the tenth-largest city in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. It is the county seat of Payne County, Oklahoma. It is located in north-central Oklahoma at the intersection of U.S. Route 177 and State Highway 51. As of the 2020 census, the city population was 48,394. The Stillwater Micropolitan Statistical Area had a population of 78,399 according to the 2012 census estimate. Stillwater was part of the first Oklahoma Land Run held on April 22, 1889, when the Unassigned Lands were opened for settlement and became the core of the new Oklahoma Territory. The city charter was adopted on August 24, 1889, and operates under a council-manager government system.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Canning</span> Method of preserving food

Canning is a method of food preservation in which food is processed and sealed in an airtight container. Canning provides a shelf life that typically ranges from one to five years, although under specific circumstances, it can be much longer. A freeze-dried canned product, such as canned dried lentils, could last as long as 30 years in an edible state.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Steel and tin cans</span> Sealed container for storage of foods

A steel can, tin can, tin, or can is a container made of thin metal, for distribution or storage of goods. Some cans are opened by removing the top panel with a can opener or other tool; others have covers removable by hand without a tool. Cans can store a broad variety of contents: food, beverages, oil, chemicals, etc.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Armour and Company</span> Former American company

Armour & Company was an American company and was one of the five leading firms in the meat packing industry. It was founded in Chicago, in 1867, by the Armour brothers led by Philip Danforth Armour. By 1880, the company had become Chicago's most important business and had helped make Chicago and its Union Stock Yards the center of America's meatpacking industry. During the same period, its facility in Omaha, Nebraska, boomed, making the city's meatpacking industry the largest in the nation by 1959. In connection with its meatpacking operations, the company also ventured into pharmaceuticals and soap manufacturing, introducing Dial soap in 1948.

Jennings Bryan "Ears" Whitworth was an American football player and coach of football and baseball. He served as the head football coach at Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College—now known as Oklahoma State University–Stillwater—from 1950 to 1954 and the University of Alabama from 1955 to 1957, compiling a career college football coaching record of 26–51–4. Whitworth also coached baseball at Alabama from 1933 to 1934 and the University of Georgia in 1943, tallying a career college baseball coaching mark of 22–21.

The O'Colly, formerly The Daily O'Collegian, is the student-run newspaper at Oklahoma State University. The O'Colly is published every weekday and distributed for free to OSU students at various points around the campus in Stillwater. The newspaper has been in distribution since May 1895. The O'Colly is ranked as one of the top college newspapers in the country, earning several honors throughout its history and has a circulation of more than 10,000.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Home canning</span> Process for preserving foods for storage

Home canning or bottling, also known colloquially as putting up or processing, is the process of preserving foods, in particular, fruits, vegetables, and meats, by packing them into glass jars and then heating the jars to create a vacuum seal and kill the organisms that would create spoilage.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Castleberry's Food Company</span>

Castleberry's Food Company is an Augusta, Georgia-based canned food company founded in the 1920s by Clement Stewart Castleberry with the help of his father Clement Lamar Castleberry and closed in March 2008 by the United States Food and Drug Administration until Hanover Foods bought the rights to Castleberry's food and name.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Andrew Bailey (banker)</span> British central banker (born 1959)

Andrew John Bailey is a British central banker and Governor of the Bank of England since 16 March 2020.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Cheese sauce</span> Sauce made with cheese

Cheese sauce is a sauce made with cheese or processed cheese as a primary ingredient. Sometimes dried cheese or cheese powder is used. Several varieties exist and it has many various culinary uses. Mass-produced commercial cheese sauces are also made by various companies, in both liquid and dry forms. These prepared sauces are used by consumers and restaurants, and commercial formulations are used in the production of various prepared foods, such as macaroni and cheese mixes and frozen meals.

Taylor Lee Lynch is an American softball player. She attended Red Oak High School in Red Oak, Texas. She later attended Oklahoma State University–Stillwater, where she played on the Oklahoma State Cowgirls softball team. In her senior year, Lynch played the entire season with a torn ACL in her right knee, while she led the Cowgirls to a berth in the 2019 Women's College World Series second round, where they lost to Washington, 1–0.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Trey Kennedy</span> American comedian

Thomas "Trey"Kennedy III is a comedian, actor and singer, known for his YouTube and TikTok videos. He emerged on the video sharing app, Vine, but after its shutdown, he transitioned to Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jo Anna Dossett</span> American educator and politician

Jo Anna Dossett is an American educator and politician serving as a member of the Oklahoma Senate from the 35th district. Elected in November 2020, she assumed office on January 11, 2021.

<i>American Tuna</i>

American Tuna: The Rise and Fall of an Improbable Food is a 2012 non-fiction book by Andrew F. Smith, published by the University of California Press.

References

  1. ↑ "LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies (Library of Congress)". The Library of Congress. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
  2. 1 2 Contois, Emily. "Canned Food History: A Conversation with Anna Zeide | Hippo Reads". Hippo Reads. Retrieved 2020-01-06.
  3. ↑ "A Jew Dealing with Christmas". Madison Storytellers. Retrieved 2020-01-06– via Mixcloud.
  4. ↑ Zeide, Anna (2014). In Cans We Trust: Food, Consumers, and Scientific Expertise in Twentieth-Century America (Ph.D. thesis). University of Wisconsin at Madison. OCLC   951679026. ProQuest   1789554587.
  5. 1 2 Zeide, Anna. "Curricum Vitae".
  6. ↑ "Opening the lid on food history | College of Letters & Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison". ls.wisc.edu.
  7. ↑ Miller, Laura J. (1 June 2019). "Anna Zeide. Canned: The Rise and Fall of Consumer Confidence in the American Food Industry". The American Historical Review. 124 (3): 1116–1117. doi: 10.1093/ahr/rhz498 . ISSN   0002-8762.
  8. ↑ Crowley, Chris (27 April 2019). "Here Are the Winners of the 2019 James Beard Foundation Media Awards". Grub Street. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
  9. ↑ "A History of Canned Food with Anna Zeide". WORT 89.9 FM. 9 May 2019. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
  10. ↑ "It's in the Can". KPFA. 11 September 2018. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
  11. ↑ "Anna Zeide: Canned". BYU Radio. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
  12. ↑ "Creamed, Canned, Condensed: The History of Canned Food". WYPR. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
  13. ↑ "America's First Processed Food". Think. 23 April 2018. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
  14. ↑ "Anna Zeide, "Canned: The Rise and Fall of Consumer Confidence in the American Food Industry" (U California Press, 2018)". New Books Network. 16 April 2018. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
  15. ↑ Depecker, Thomas (1 April 2019). "Anna Zeide, 2018, Canned: The rise and fall of consumer confidence in the American food industry". Review of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Studies. 100 (1–4): 129–131. doi:10.1007/s41130-019-00085-9. S2CID   159219995 . Retrieved 6 January 2020.
  16. ↑ Simmons, Beau. "OSU professor wins award with first book". stwnewspress-cnhi.newsmemory.com. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
  17. ↑ Jackson, Jacob (4 March 2018). "OSU professor presents talk on canning industry, promotes upcoming book". The O'Colly. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
  18. ↑ "Anna Zeide | at The Saturday Evening Post". Saturday Evening Post. 14 November 2019.
  19. ↑ Zeide, Anna. "The Botulism Outbreak That Gave Rise to America's Food Safety System". Smithsonian Magazine . Retrieved 6 January 2020.
  20. ↑ Zeide, Anna (24 March 2012). "about". annazeide.org.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.