Michael Owen Jones Editor & Author

Michael Owen Jones, Venice, California, has authored more than 160 publications and served for many years as editor of the Folk Art and Artists Series published by University Press of Mississippi. For forty years he taught at UCLA on food customs and symbolism, folk art, organizational symbolism, folk medicine, and other topics.

Lucy M. Long, Bowling Green, Ohio, taught ethnomusicology, folklore, popular culture, American culture studies, international studies, and tourism for over thirty years, primarily at Bowling Green State University, where she pioneered food and culture courses beginning in the mid-1990s. In 2011, she founded the nonprofit Center for Food and Culture.