UC Press is proud to publish award-winning authors and books across many disciplines. Below are several of our February 2023 award winners. Please join us in celebrating these scholars by sharing the news!
Kaveh Askari
2023 Katherine Singer Kovàcs Book AwardSociety for Cinem...
A much celebrated author and food scholar, Darra Goldstein has devoted her career to interpreting Russian culture, and presents a new look into how Russian cuisine has developed in response to economic hardship and political oppression. Her newest book, The Kingdom of Rye, takes reader...
For Mother’s Day, author Natalia Molina remembers her grandmother Doña Natalia Barraza, the impressive woman who opened the Nayarit restaurant in Echo Park, Los Angeles in 1951. The restaurant became an urban anchor for the local community of Mexican immigrants, offering a space of belon...
by María Elena García, author of Gastropolitics and the Specter of Race: Stories of Capital, Culture, and Coloniality in Peru
I never intended to write a book about food. And certainly, I never planned to write a book that critiqued the chefs credited for transforming Peru—the country ...