The growing acceptance and legitimacy of food-cultural studies as a distinct field seems to be a sign of the growing acknowledgment that ground-breaking scholarship often crosses disciplinary boundaries. Whereas some believe that the identification of food-cultural studies as a discrete field may not be of much relevance in the academic environment, I question the firmness of this statement based on the issue of their claimed inherent interdisciplinarity. The range of research concerning the field of food-cultural studies over the last fifteen years validates their increasing relevance to Anglo-American Studies. One can see the way the food studies movement has promoted scholars and students in longestablished academic disciplines to follow a line of investigation on food themes. The last couple of years have also been prolific in terms of new academic journals on food studies, culinary history societies, and publishers announcing food series. While American Studies, as a celebrated interdisciplinary field, apparently offers fewer cautions than other disciplines about dipping into multiple methods, when it comes to food studies scholars working with other professionals they take in the tools to read wide-ranging data through a cultural lens. Has the so acclaimed interdisciplinary matter grown into a need for developing cross-disciplinary dialogues? info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion