FYSP 049 - Cultures of Food Writing

FC ARHU CD WINT

4 credits
This course looks at the myriad ways that food has been written about. People write about food to register their delight or disdain with a meal, promote or demote a restaurant, explore and exploit a faraway land, whisk up nostalgia, marinate on identity, thicken a plot, and broil for social justice. What does all this language devoted to food tell us about the world we live in, who we are, where we come from, and where we are going? We will digest just a morsel of this literature to learn more about the cultures we inhabit.