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KC Hysmith is a Texas-bred, North Carolina-based writer, food historian, recipe developer, and photographer. She is interested in the intersection between food, gender, and the digital landscape. Her writing and work have appeared in Food52, SpruceEats, Gastronomica, The Boston Globe, Sift, Culture Magazine, Indyweek, The Local Palate, and more.
KC holds a BA in Plan II from the University of Texas - Austin, an MLA in Gastronomy from Boston University, and a PhD in American Studies and food history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
KC also works as a cookbook writer, recipe developer, food stylist, and food photographer. This work informs much of her research on the digital food landscape on platforms like Instagram and Twitter.
KC is a mother of two small children who love helping out in the kitchen, but refuse to eat anything they make.
selected research interests:
food politics
historical cookbooks
women’s movements
transatlantic foodways
folklore & food
digital recipe data
buttercream art
all things Jane Austen
Texas
motherhood
social media/hashtags
tacos
