Title: Small Screen Food: American Identity Through a Culinary Televisual Lens Editors: Urszula Niewiadomska-Flis and Carrie Helms Tippen Proposals (500 words): March 15, 2024 Completed Chapters (7,000 words): August 15, 2024 Salman Rushdie characterized the serial television show “as the novelistic medium of the 21st century,” signifying its emerging importance and elevating its status to a realm traditionally occupied by novels.