“This compelling collection demonstrates how transnational Latinidades are constructed and reproduced in embodied, day-to-day relationships with the food industry. The eleven essays here draw from the disciplines of history, anthropology, literary studies, and cultural studies to explore how Latin@s in the U.S.A., Mexico, and the Caribbean generate complex cultural capital and meaning as food makers and creators, producers and providers, sellers and marketers, consumers, transporters, importers, laborers, or any of these in combination. The collection provides insights into the pragmatic circumstantial or situational Latin@ food systems that operate in tandem with, but often outside the notice of, globally and locally ‘recognized’ food industries. Latin@s’ Presence in the Food Industry merits a wide readership across Foodways studies and Latin@ studies alike.”

—Paul Allatson, author of Key Terms in Latino/a Cultural and Literary Studies