Walter Levy writes about picnics and food when he’s not dreaming of a better world to come. He is a professor emeritus in English at Pace University, New York.
Selected food publications include “American Picnics,” Oxford Companion to American Food and Drink, 2nd edition (2012); “Once Upon a Literary Sandwich,” Virginia Culinary Thymes (2011); guest editor of The CEA Critic (Food and Literary Imagination, 2008); “Anti-Picnics,” Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium of Food and Cookery 2007 (2008); “American Picnics,” Oxford Companion to American Food and Drink (2007); “American Picnics,” Oxford Book of American Food and Drink (2004, 2012); “Picnics,” Scribner’s Encyclopedia of Food and Culture (2003); Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium of Food and Cookery for 2003, 2004, 2007; “American Picnics,” Oxford Companion to American Food and Drink, 2nd edition (2012);“Once Upon a Literary Sandwich,” Virginia Culinary Thymes (2011); guest editor of The CEA Critic (Food and Literary Imagination, 2008); “Anti-Picnics,” Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium of Food and Cookery 2007 (2008); “American Picnics,” Oxford Companion to American Food and Drink (2007); “Some Like It Raw,” Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium of Food and Cookery 2004 (2005); “American Picnics,” Oxford Book of American Food and Drink (2004); “Picnics,” Scribner’s Encyclopedia of Food and Culture (2003); “Picnics and Fairy Tales,” Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium of Food and Cookery 2003 (2004).
Also, Listening to Earth: American Environmental Writing, with Christopher Hallowell (2004); Modern Drama: An Anthology of World Drama (1999); Green Perspectives: Thinking and Writing about Literature and the Environment, with Christopher Hallowell (1994); Lives Through Literature: A Thematic Anthology, with Helane Levine Keating, 3rd edition (2001).