Comments on: A Mess of Links http://www.rachellaudan.com/2009/11/a-mess-of-links-2.html A Historian's Take on Food and Food Politics Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:05:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Cindy http://www.rachellaudan.com/2009/11/a-mess-of-links-2.html/comment-page-1#comment-26978 Cindy Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:08:44 +0000 http://www.rachellaudan.com/?p=2103#comment-26978 I look forward to seeing what you've got on the gender thing. Here are some references I ran into recently, but I have not yet had a chance to look at any of them: Christie, Maria Elisa Kitchenspace: Women, Fiestas, and Everyday Life in Central Mexico. (2008) Counihan, Carole M., The Anthropology of Food and Body:Gender, Meaning, and Power. (1999) Kahn, Miriam, Always Hungry, Never Greedy: Food and the Expression of Gender in a Melanesian Society. (1986) Mary J. Weismantel, Food, Gender, and Poverty in the Ecuadorian Andes. (1988) I look forward to seeing what you’ve got on the gender thing. Here are some references I ran into recently, but I have not yet had a chance to look at any of them:

Christie, Maria Elisa Kitchenspace: Women, Fiestas, and Everyday Life in Central Mexico. (2008)

Counihan, Carole M., The Anthropology of Food and Body:Gender, Meaning, and Power. (1999)

Kahn, Miriam, Always Hungry, Never Greedy: Food and the Expression of Gender in a Melanesian Society. (1986)

Mary J. Weismantel, Food, Gender, and Poverty in the Ecuadorian Andes. (1988)

]]> By: Rachel Laudan http://www.rachellaudan.com/2009/11/a-mess-of-links-2.html/comment-page-1#comment-26971 Rachel Laudan Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:17:58 +0000 http://www.rachellaudan.com/?p=2103#comment-26971 Has to be huge gender selection for hunger. And then there is all the work social historians have done on European women having babies in February/March when anemia was likely to be at its worst and then having to breast feed. I need to dig up some references for that. Has to be huge gender selection for hunger. And then there is all the work social historians have done on European women having babies in February/March when anemia was likely to be at its worst and then having to breast feed. I need to dig up some references for that.

]]> By: Cindy http://www.rachellaudan.com/2009/11/a-mess-of-links-2.html/comment-page-1#comment-26966 Cindy Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:26:57 +0000 http://www.rachellaudan.com/?p=2103#comment-26966 Rachel, thanks again for including a link to my blog post on the biology of starvation and its impacts on history. It's a subject that fascinated me when I got my degree in human nutrition and it still fascinates me. I'd like to see a little more work done on the cooking/gender role, etc. One telling thing I came across once had to do with the US Civil War -- a woman from the South basically starved herself so that the rest of her family could eat, and the reason we know this is that family pictures before, during, and after the Civil War pretty much showed that to be the case; in addition, I believe she wrote a diary or someone else did, I can't recall the details. Anyway, i doubt she was the only who did this. Rachel, thanks again for including a link to my blog post on the biology of starvation and its impacts on history. It’s a subject that fascinated me when I got my degree in human nutrition and it still fascinates me. I’d like to see a little more work done on the cooking/gender role, etc. One telling thing I came across once had to do with the US Civil War — a woman from the South basically starved herself so that the rest of her family could eat, and the reason we know this is that family pictures before, during, and after the Civil War pretty much showed that to be the case; in addition, I believe she wrote a diary or someone else did, I can’t recall the details. Anyway, i doubt she was the only who did this.

]]> By: Rachel Laudan http://www.rachellaudan.com/2009/11/a-mess-of-links-2.html/comment-page-1#comment-26964 Rachel Laudan Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:35:22 +0000 http://www.rachellaudan.com/?p=2103#comment-26964 Democratized high end cuisine--white bread (or rice), beef (imitation steak) or other hallowed protein, fancy drink (fizzy, flavored), fats, green stuff, french fries pronounced at the beginning of the 20th c as the greatest acheivement of Parisian cooking, fancy surroundings all at a low price, at least for rich countries though still a luxury in much of the rest of the world. An extraordinary combination. Democratized high end cuisine–white bread (or rice), beef (imitation steak) or other hallowed protein, fancy drink (fizzy, flavored), fats, green stuff, french fries pronounced at the beginning of the 20th c as the greatest acheivement of Parisian cooking, fancy surroundings all at a low price, at least for rich countries though still a luxury in much of the rest of the world. An extraordinary combination.

]]> By: Diana Buja http://www.rachellaudan.com/2009/11/a-mess-of-links-2.html/comment-page-1#comment-26957 Diana Buja Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:49:33 +0000 http://www.rachellaudan.com/?p=2103#comment-26957 Great links, Rachel - and thanks for including mine. Question/observation abut the McDonald's link: what, then, are the underlying links (or, as Levi-strauss would have it - 'deep sturcture') that unites McDonald products - other than 1. being fast 2. being high-tech based... a few others... ? Great links, Rachel – and thanks for including mine. Question/observation abut the McDonald’s link: what, then, are the underlying links (or, as Levi-strauss would have it – ‘deep sturcture’) that unites McDonald products – other than 1. being fast 2. being high-tech based… a few others… ?

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