Helen Zoe Veit is an award-winning historian and writer. An associate professor of history at Michigan State University, she is the director of the What America Ate and America in the Kitchen projects, was an advisor for HBO’s The Gilded Age, and was a member of Gastronomica’s editorial collective. She is often cited in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and more. Her book Modern Food, Moral Food was a James Beard Award finalist, and her edited volume Food in the Civil War Era: The North won a Gourmand International award.
