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Holiday Planning with ‘The Sensible Cook’

As Thanksgiving and winter holidays approach, many people return to classic and treasured family recipes, returning to traditional favorite foods. At Syracuse University Press, we wanted to see what books in our library may help plan a traditional Thanksgiving. With that in mind, we turn to The Sensible Cook: Dutch Foodways in the Old and the New World. Originally published in Dutch in 1667, the SUP edition was republished in 1998 with a new translation and commentary by Peter G. Rose, The Sensible Cook allows a look back at middle class Dutch life in the 17th Century, both in the…

Holiday Sales picks for everyone on your list!

Happy Holidays, readers! Until December 15, all of our books are 40% off in our annual Holiday Sale. That’s hundreds of titles across dozens of our series. For those less sure of what they’re looking for, we can offer some suitable gifting advice for the season. The Decoration of Houses Edith Wharton’s The Decoration of Houses, co-written with the architect Ogden Codman Jr., brought transatlantic fame to a writer best known as a chronicler of Gilded Age New York. In their decorating guidebook, Wharton and Codman, who collaborated on the design of the author’s Massachusetts home, The Mount, advocated for…

Interview: Edward Pitts on ‘Sketching the Adirondacks’

Sketching the Adirondacks: Letters from the Wilderness, a new work of literary nonfiction from author Edward Pitts, tells the story of artists Jervis McEntee and Joseph Tubby as the pair journey through the Adirondacks in 1851, sketching what they find to use as painting reference. The book takes the form of a series of letters the pair write home, giving a personal dimension to their artistic journey. In time with the book’s release, we sat down to talk with the author about his process, how he views the characters, and his relationship to the wild places Tubby and McEntee sketched….

Join us for a Read New York Virtual Book Talk

On July 28, the press will be holding a virtual book talk as part of the Read New York Challenge, highlighting local authors exploring the concept of writing New York waterways.

May’s ‘Read New York Challenge’: “Peconic Bay”

The 2026 Read New York Challenge is preparing for summer reads and May’s entry offers a warm and welcoming portrait of one Staten Island region. Only recently recognized for its economic and environmental significance, the Peconic Bay has a rich history, examined in Marilyn E. Weigold’s 2019 book, Peconic Bay: Four Centuries of History on Long Island’s North and South Forks. Peconic Bay examines the past 400 years of the region’s history, tracing the growth of the fishing industry, the rise of tourism, and the impact of a military presence in the wake of September 11. Weigold introduces readers to the…

Meet the Press’ Summer Intern

Arianna Taylor was awarded the Humanities Center’s Next-Generation Doctoral Internship for SU Press during summer 2025. Originally from the Bronx, they’re going into their third year as an English PhD student at Syracuse University. They also received their bachelor’s from the University of Rochester in Language, Media, and Communications (English). Currently, they’re studying African-American popular culture and how Black kinship moves between Black cultural texts to link/create Black Diasporic kinship. They’re specifically interested Black popular culture, performance studies, critical race studies, and ideas on transnational blackness. What drew you to the press? I’ve always been interested in publishing. When I…