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May 21, 2024
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2021-2022 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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HN 398 Eat, Memory: Reading, Watching & Writing Food Memoir
We all have to eat, right? However, food in our culture has become more than just about eating, it’s become art, entertainment and a personal and political statement. Another hot cultural phenomenon is the popularity of the memoir, explorations of themes and moments in people’s personal lives. We’ll also look at how food is intimately connected to memory, both physIn this class we will read food memoirs by writers such as Diana Abu Jabar, Ntozake Shange, MFK Fisher and other and we’ll write our own as well. We’ll exercise our senses with tastings and smellings (?, have field trips and guest speakers. For the final project we will write a short memoir about, make, and share in a communal feast the recpies that are connected to our memories and identity. As the French chef and writer Brillat-Savarin said, “Tell me what you eat, and I’ll tell you who you are.”
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