SOCI 315 Assignment 1 FOOD MEMORY
SOCI 315 Assignment 1 FOOD MEMORY
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SOCI 315 Assignment 1 FOOD
MEMORY
Write a
description of a food memory, preferably from your childhood. This could be a
memory of tasting or liking/disliking a particular food, or it could be a
memory focused on a dish from a particular eating event, collective or
individual. Pay attention to as many senses as you can invoke to evoke this
memory.
Do a
bit of research to place your memory in wider context. Discuss the
cultural, symbolic, social, structural, or other meanings of this dish. Specify
the social group for whom it has meaning, for what kinds of occasions and
settings is this dish prepared, who is involved in the preparation, serving,
and consumption of this dish, etc.
Is this
a food that unique to your culture? What are its traditional names? (And do
these names have any special significance and/or meaning?) What ingredients go
into making these foods? How and when are they eaten? Are there unspoken family
“rules” about food consumption (e.g., what’s okay, and not okay, to eat; how
and where should one eat, etc.)
There
are many ways to approach this assignment:
1) If
you recalled a dish at a specific event, talk to others who were also present
and see how they remember the dish and the event; analyze the similarities and
discrepancies between your recollections;
2) If you remembered a specific
dish, you might also try to find the recipe for it. You may find multiple,
slightly different recipes for a regional dish (say, gooey butter cake or black
eyed peas) – if so, see how many varieties you can collect from friends, family
members, and other sources (do not only look in Better
Homes and Gardens or some other standard cookbook, or the internet for a
general recipe). If
it is a family recipe that has one ‘original’ source (say, a great
grandmother), see if others with access to this recipe have come up with
modified versions. You might also try to interview at least one other person
about his or her memories, feelings, associations with this dish and/or recipe.
DO NOT HAVE MOST OF YOUR PAPER BE THE RECIPE! Just summarize it into ONE,
particularly if you have several!
This paper needs to be 4 pages
or more. You will need to use .12 Times New Roman Font. You need to double
space and provide a cover page/reference page, following APA-formatting
guidelines. These two items are NOT part of your page count.
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“Tell me what you eat and I
will tell you what you are.”
~Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
(1755-1826). The
Physiology of Taste, 1826. ~
“When I walk into my kitchen
today, I am not alone. Whether we know it or not, none of is. We bring fathers
and mothers and kitchen tables, and every meal we have ever eaten. Food is
never just food. It’s also a way of getting at something else: who we are, who
we have been, and who we want to be.”
~Molly Wizenberg, A Homemade Life~
“American food is in
crisis. Never before has there been such a rapid and profound change in
what we eat and how it grown…We have become a society too rich to farm, too
busy to cook, too preoccupied with our created selves to acknowledge the
legitimate and very read needs of our natural selves…We are a society addicted
to the idea of unblemished cheap food. Americans spend less of their
incomes on food (on a percentage basis) than any other industrialized country
in the world. It has been, however, a Faustian bargain.”
~ George Schenk, “American
Flatbread.” ~
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