One of the more fascinating courses I took in college was on the History of Food, with an East Asian emphasis. I think my professor was planning on writing a book about it; I don't recall off hand the texts we read for it, though I believe I still have the books around somewhere in boxes. I also recently came across this youtube video that sort of distilled the course in 15 minutes. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6MhV5Rn63M)
(Another thing I liked about the course was how it reinforced the idea of history being a living, breathing creature. The more we find out about the past, the more it changes. And using stuff like women's magazines, household diaries, recipe books, etc that were previously NOT thought important are now changing/influencing/adding to our knowledge of history. Just another way of realizing how much history is shaped by certain (white male) perspectives.)
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Re: eating from your culture
Date: 2009-08-13 02:33 am (UTC)(Another thing I liked about the course was how it reinforced the idea of history being a living, breathing creature. The more we find out about the past, the more it changes. And using stuff like women's magazines, household diaries, recipe books, etc that were previously NOT thought important are now changing/influencing/adding to our knowledge of history. Just another way of realizing how much history is shaped by certain (white male) perspectives.)