Distinction and Dining

Gary Alan Fine is John Evans Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University and is a Member of the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, in 2014–2015. He is the author of Kitchens: The Culture of Restaurant Work (University of California Press, updated edition, 2009) and Authors of the Storm: Meteorologists and the Culture of Prediction (University of Chicago Press, 2007). He has written for Grist, a blog site that specializes in environmental, agricultural, and food issues. His current research examines MFA training of emerging contemporary artists.