Ithaca College

Anthony Di Renzo, associate professor of writing, will be featured on the radio show Out of Bounds: 11:30 AM today on WSKG (90.9 FM).

Created and hosted by Tish Pearlman, Out of Bounds interviews people living, working, and thinking outside the mainstream. Di Renzo will discuss his latest book Bitter Greens: Essays on Food, Politics, and Ethnicity from the Imperial Kitchen (SUNY Press, 2010).

Set primarily in the Empire State and arranged like the courses of a traditional Italian meal, Bitter Greens meditates on Italian food at the noon of American imperialism and the twilight of ethnicity, exploring the relaltionship beween globalization and assimilation and target marketing and mass consumption. This book has won advanced praise from Tony Ardizzone, Sandra Gilbert, Michael Parenti, Lucia Perillo, and Peter Selgin.

A fugitive from advertising, Di Renzo teaches classical rhetoric and professional writing at Ithaca College. Cited in Best American Essays, his work has appeared in Alimentum, Il Caffé, The Normal School, River Styx, and Voices in Italian Americana. He lives on West Hill, with his wife and cats, and buys his broccoli rabe at the Ithaca Farmers Market.

For more information about Bitter Greens, visit www.sunypress.edu/p-5080-bitter-greens.aspx.