Christina Ward

Christina Ward is an author, editor, and seeker. She had the distinct pleasure of riding around town in the Wienermobile with Padma Lakshmi on the hottest day in July of 2019 for “Taste the Nation.” Her newest book, Holy Food: How Cults, Communes, and Religious Movements Influenced What We Eat--An American History, will be published in January 2023. Her previous book, American Advertising Cookbooks-How Corporations Taught Us To Love, Spam, Bananas, and Jell-O, earned positive notice from Florence Fabricant in the New York Times, Christopher Kimball of Milk Street Radio, and numerous other journalists and readers. Christina makes regular guest expert on Fox6 News Real Milwaukee television program and on public radio stations across the United States, delighting in ‘working blue’ before 8 am. She contributed to and edited the 2021 book Bawdy Tales & Trifles of Devilries for Ladies and Gentlemen of Experience under her nom d’amour, Lady Fanny Woodcock. Christina contributes to academic and educational conferences on the topic of transgressive art. She is also the Vice President of Feral House, a publisher noted for books on culture. “This business—eating, sleeping, sex life and defense—this is common to the animal and to the human being. So eating, the satisfaction of eating, anything you eat the pleasure is the same. There is no difference. A dog is enjoying sex life on the street, and the king is enjoying sex life in the palace. But the pleasure is the same.” Prabhupada, founder of the International Krishna Consciousness organization (Hare Krishnas)