Category Reading Responses
What a great class today! As the header asks, “should Indian food be easy to make/replicate?” What does that question even mean? In this week’s piece, we begin to understand the real significance of the cookbook as a key to… Continue Reading →
I had a fantastic time at MOCA on Friday! I’m eager to read about what your individual experiences felt like. I think that some of you really absorbed the exhibit we set out to see, and others found a special… Continue Reading →
Please discuss your “favorite” of the 3 readings, and talk about why – highlight some of the specific ideas & perspectives presented in the article(s) so that we can talk about them. (Try to refer to exact references, so we… Continue Reading →
Sidney Mintz’s piece, “Food and Diaspora,” delineates food as an act of travel. Throughout reading Mintz’s essay, I undoubtedly experienced a refreshingly new appreciation for the importance of food in one’s society. Food is an essential part of a culture’s… Continue Reading →
With the development of technology and transportation, more people are exposed to foreign cultures that are found all around the world. What seemed different and unique to a place that was inaccessible could finally be familiarized. Although the people try… Continue Reading →
In his piece “Food and Diaspora,” Sidney Mintz mentions that “When food objects, processes–even ideas–spread from one society to another, the receiving society is likely to modify, often to misunderstand, and usually to redefine what it has received. When using… Continue Reading →
According to Mintz, the Colombian Exchange was the first time food truly traveled worldwide to be experienced by other people. He brings about an important point that we also visited on Friday which was the preparation of Maize. (517) While… Continue Reading →
When discussing the “authenticity” of food, a precursor must be mentioned: that (at least for myself) will stymie all confusion and establish a clear and explicit line regarding “authentic food” and “not-authentic food” or “almost authentic food,” and that… Continue Reading →
Glady’s, a Caribbean restaurant situated in the heart of Brooklyn, was founded by two white American males after a trip to Jamaica. Because these two men are not a part of the West Indian culture and identity, many speculate as… Continue Reading →
Sidney Mintz talks of food moving without people and people moving without food. The biggest time in history when food was moving without people attached to it was during the Colombian Exchange (named after good ole Christopher). When explorers discovered… Continue Reading →