About

Cover of Fed Up, orange with white letters. Blurb that says “Fed Up shows why feeding kids in America has never been free from public scrutiny. Cevasco’s timely history, written with compassion for caregivers, illuminates persistent debates about what should be in kids’ bottles, on their lunch trays, and in the refrigerator.” by Rebecca Scofield, author of Outriders

I’m a writer, speaker, and scholar interested in the history of food in the United States. I am Associate Professor of American Studies at Rutgers University-New Brunswick.

My new book, Fed Up: The True History of Why You’re So Stressed about What to Feed the Kids, is coming in April 2027 from the University of North Carolina Press and available to preorder now:

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My first book, Violent Appetites: Hunger in the Early Northeast, was published in 2022 with Yale University Press.

I have written for The Atlantic, TIME, and Lapham’s Quarterly, and my scholarship has appeared in Early American Studies, New England Quarterly, Art History, and Journal of Early American History.

Header Image Credit: Wellcome Library, London.