Christina Ward (born April 4, 1969, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is a Wisconsin-based writer specializing in food preservation, recipe, and culinary history books.
Ward published her first book, Preservation: The Art and Science of Canning, Fermentation, and Dehydration (2017),[2] with the Feral House imprint, Process.
Ward's second book, American Advertising Cookbooks: How Corporations Taught Us to Love Spam, Bananas, and Jell-O (2019),[4] was met with critical and press recognition from the New York Times,[5] Milk Street Radio,[6] and more.
[7][8] In July 2019, Ward provided research about Milwaukee food culture for the producers of the Hulu broadcast episodic program Taste the Nation with Padma Lakshmi.
She was invited to appear on camera with host and executive producer Padma Lakshmi for Episode 2 of Season 1,[9] where they discussed Milwaukee's early immigrant food culture, while riding around in the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile.