FOOD FOR THOUGHT -all meats are edible but its culture that decides whether they are
eaten or not
Ideas about how food shapes culture and how culture shapes -some people won’t try another cultures food as to not want to
food dilute their own cultures food
Classification: religion, identity, civility, pleasure, economics and -in today’s age, many different cultural foods come forth in one
environment country as part of tourism
1. Regarding space: places where you can grow food and Symbol of identity
the obtain food -Italians are associated with pasta
2. The temporal dimensions: indicated by the specific -Japanese are associated with rice: rice is a symbol of eating
seasons when certain food becomes available, the times together, as a feast for Gods and among humans
of our daily meals -it is also seen as a medium of sacred exchange
3. Linguistically: the terms used to describe our food, food -Japanese people will pay to have Japanese grown rice, it is not
terms are used metaphorically to speak of other things only a symbol of the self but also a symbol of the land- it’s space
4. Sitting with someone and temporal dimensions- historical and territorial meaning
5. Food as nutrition -Anne Allison: identity is an example of a working ideological
state apparatus by which she means the institutions that exert
power not primarily through repression but through ideology
WE ARE WHAT WE EAT: = making people see the world a certain way and accepting of
Food is a cultural marker identities as their own within that world
-part of a person’s identity: British people like marmite where as
other nations find it bitter IDEOLOGY: A SYSTEM OF IDEAS AND IDEALS ESPECIALLY ONE
= America sent wheat to Africa, but Africans did not know what to WHICH FORMS THE BASIS OF ECONOMIC OR POLITICAL THEORY
do with it because it was not part of their African cuisine OR POLICY
-not particularly ethnicity but also about how developed that part
of the country is Mediterranean Diet
-beef is not eaten by Indians because it is sacred, however is -simple foods
eaten by Americans and British people
eaten or not
Ideas about how food shapes culture and how culture shapes -some people won’t try another cultures food as to not want to
food dilute their own cultures food
Classification: religion, identity, civility, pleasure, economics and -in today’s age, many different cultural foods come forth in one
environment country as part of tourism
1. Regarding space: places where you can grow food and Symbol of identity
the obtain food -Italians are associated with pasta
2. The temporal dimensions: indicated by the specific -Japanese are associated with rice: rice is a symbol of eating
seasons when certain food becomes available, the times together, as a feast for Gods and among humans
of our daily meals -it is also seen as a medium of sacred exchange
3. Linguistically: the terms used to describe our food, food -Japanese people will pay to have Japanese grown rice, it is not
terms are used metaphorically to speak of other things only a symbol of the self but also a symbol of the land- it’s space
4. Sitting with someone and temporal dimensions- historical and territorial meaning
5. Food as nutrition -Anne Allison: identity is an example of a working ideological
state apparatus by which she means the institutions that exert
power not primarily through repression but through ideology
WE ARE WHAT WE EAT: = making people see the world a certain way and accepting of
Food is a cultural marker identities as their own within that world
-part of a person’s identity: British people like marmite where as
other nations find it bitter IDEOLOGY: A SYSTEM OF IDEAS AND IDEALS ESPECIALLY ONE
= America sent wheat to Africa, but Africans did not know what to WHICH FORMS THE BASIS OF ECONOMIC OR POLITICAL THEORY
do with it because it was not part of their African cuisine OR POLICY
-not particularly ethnicity but also about how developed that part
of the country is Mediterranean Diet
-beef is not eaten by Indians because it is sacred, however is -simple foods
eaten by Americans and British people
