Presented by: Rocio Carvajal Food anthropologist, culture & gastronomy educator.
Episode 79
Welcome to the season finale!
In this episode, I discuss how early printed cookbooks in Mexico were tools of cultural propaganda. Through a form of culinary patriotism, cookbooks built the gastronomic identity of a newly independent nation promoting the adoption of behaviours, tastes and manners of the whiter middle and upper classes.
In light of the aggressive exploitation of cultural expressions, contemporary discussions are contesting the dated and monolithic idea of “a Mexican gastronomy” that has erased and silenced the culinary identity and food practices of indigenous communities and ethnic minorities.
Related episodes:
Reading list:
• Ayora-Diaz, Steffan Igor (ed). (2019) Taste, Politics, and Identities in Mexican Food. https://amzn.to/3vmIKd8
• Bak-Geller Corona, Sarah. (2013). “Narrativas deleitosas de la nación. Los primeros libros de cocina en México” (1830-1890).” https://tinyurl.com/y38yjjhb
• Bak-Geller, Sarah; Matta, Raúl y de Suremain, Charles-Édouard. (2019) Patrimonios alimentarios. Entre consensos y tensiones. https://tinyurl.com/y2vl8yon
• Banerjee-Dube, Ishita. (ed). 2016. Cooking Cultures Convergent Histories of Food and Feeling. https://amzn.to/3JOKgtx
• Gaytán Marie Sarita. (2014). “Drinking difference: Race, consumption, and alcohol prohibition in Mexico and the United States.” https://tinyurl.com/y3gwyrzd
• Moreno Botello, Ricardo. (2017). La Cocina en Puebla Tradición y Modernidad de un Patrimonio, Elogio de de La Cocinera Poblana. https://amzn.to/3jLmdRS
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