Red Meat: American Political Banquets and Partisan Culture

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 2014–15. 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.

Christine Simonian Bean is a PhD candidate in Northwestern University’s Interdisciplinary Theatre and Drama program, and holds an MA in Theatre Studies from University of California, Santa Barbara. Her dissertation examines food in performance as it relates to embodied, affective spectating and twentieth-century material conceptions of “the real.” Her reviews and essays have appeared in Theatre Journal, Theatre Topics, and Scene, and she is currently an assistant editor for Theatre Survey.

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 2014–15. 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.

Christine Simonian Bean is a PhD candidate in Northwestern University’s Interdisciplinary Theatre and Drama program, and holds an MA in Theatre Studies from University of California, Santa Barbara. Her dissertation examines food in performance as it relates to embodied, affective spectating and twentieth-century material conceptions of “the real.” Her reviews and essays have appeared in Theatre Journal, Theatre Topics, and Scene, and she is currently an assistant editor for Theatre Survey.