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Judith Newton

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Judith Newton is Professor Emerita in Women and Gender Studies at U.C. Davis. While at U.C. Davis she directed the Women and Gender Studies program and the Consortium for Women and Research.

Her food memoir, TASTING HOME, received the following critical acclaim:

Starred Review (outstanding in its genre)in Publisher's Weekly Select.

First prize, autobiography, in the London Book Festival.

Silver,Women's Studies, ForeWord Book of the Year Awards.

Bronze,memoir,Independent Publishers's Awards.


Finalist, autobiography, from Reader's Favorite.

Honorable mentions in the Hollywood and Southern California Book Festivals.

Finalist, autobiography, Reader’s Favorite.

"Approved" Status from Independent Reader

Finalist, memoir, National Indie Excellence Book Aw
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OINK: A FOOD FOR THOUGHT MYSTERY Coming April 2017 with She Writes Press

Emily Addams is the last person you’d expect police to be circling in a poisoning investigation. A professor of women’s studies, a foodie, and a doting mom, Emily has spent her life building a campus community and engaging in peaceful struggles against injustice. But when Peter Elliott, a Professor of Plant Biology at her bucolic Arbor State, is found comatose in a pig pen clutching a piece of Emi

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“awkwardness and shame. Still, I turned to food”
Judith Newton, Tasting Home: Coming of Age in the Kitchen

“Preparing vegetables, I had discovered, was an exacting art, almost as rigorous as closely reading Shakespeare, but the latter was a solitary occupation, while cooking could be shared.”
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