Her publications include Food Culture in France. Appointed by the Oklahoma Humanities Council and the Smithsonian Institution, she has served as the research scholar for a public humanities project that investigated local food histories and practices across the State of Oklahoma, to understand their relationship to national trends. She earned the B.A. in French Studies from Bryn Mawr College and Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures, with a specialization in French, from Princeton University.