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ENGL 293 - Acquired Taste: Literature and Colonial American Foodways

FC ARHU
4 credits
This course offers a food history of settler colonialism in the Americas. It examines how invasion and occupation disrupted Indigenous foodways but also how Indigenous American foods (from tomatoes, hot peppers, and potatoes, to chocolate and peanuts) globalized European, African, and Asian tastes. Often following the routes of the Atlantic slave trade and back again, American foods and their preparation represent global histories of dispossession as well as resistance and adaptation. Students will read a range of literary genres, recipes, and food histories that shaped European and settler appetites for American foods but with an eye to how they represent the production, preparation knowledge, and creativity of Black and Indigenous Americans. Assignments include a critical making lab component where students recreate early modern recipes, weekly potluck dinner, and the compilation of a class cookbook/food history as the final project.



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