[Reader-list] [Announcements] REMINDER- Talk @ Sarai by Krishnendu Ray
Mitoo Das
mitoo at sarai.net
Thu Aug 7 12:48:33 IST 2008
Hi all,
This is a reminder for the talk we have tomorrow afternoon by Krishnendu
Ray.
The details for the talk are given below.
Best,
Mitoo.
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Making the Edible Legible: American Restaurants in Print, 1830-2006
Talk by: Dr. Krishnendu Ray
Venue: Seminar Room, Sarai-CSDS
Date: 8th August
Time: 3:30 pm
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 the 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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