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Apr 16, 2026
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CNX 173 - The Culture of Eating: Food, Migration and Memoirs
Description
We are what we eat. Our identities are tied up with our foodways. Food is more than just calories consumed to sustain life: this course explores how food is central to our sociocultural being, both as individuals and as participants in broader cultural practices. We will be exploring both historical and literary sources to examine how practices of food production and consumption played a role in migration - both involuntary and voluntary - and impacted identity formation on the personal and societal level. We will examine how food sustains and empowers us, becomes a source of agency, self-expression, and even resistance. Throughout, we will read lots of great food writers and do a lot of our own writing about food, with particular emphasis placed on reading and writing food memoirs.
Credits: 1
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