[Reader-list] Talk at Sarai-CSDS

[Ravikant]

You are all invited to an illustrated talk by Dr. Krishnendu Ray at Sarai-CSDS 
on 8th August, Friday, 3.30 PM. Please read on for details:
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Making the Edible Legible: American Restaurants in Print, 1830-2006

Cuisine happens when cooking leaves the kitchen, in the first instance when it 
escapes the domestic kitchen, and in the second instance, when it spreads 
onto the print media to give durability to the talk about taste. Based on 
detailed archival work and quantitative data this presentation seeks to 
measure the talk about restaurants in American newspapers from its first 
appearance in 1830 to the present. The restaurant kitchen is trhe space of 
mongrel borderland – an orality of Hispanidad, Bengali, Cantonese, and 
Hakka – and the dining room a pedigreed and printed Anglophone parlor with 
Francophile accents. This work looks at taste and toil as a dynamic, dialogic 
relationship between producers and consumers of commodified cuisine.   



Krishnendu Ray is Assistant Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies and Public 
Health at New York University. He is the author of The Migrants' Table 
(Temple Univ Press, 2004), and has taught for a decade at the Culinary 
Institute of America. 
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regards
ravikant