User:Ssstephen/Reading/Edible Feminisms

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aG9cDpkOnA0

what things connect contemporary american food culture with the production of science, with facts, with data, with claims about the nature of how things work in the world?

fermenting what is normally thrown out, in fermentation technologies what is ugly old, or funky could be made delicious, desirable to eat, and significantly more valuable

the potential for science to turn ick into yum

There are lots of really icky and cold things even outside of food. How to make them lekker or gezellig.

the celebration of the undervalued, of the left-over

the ways in which the edible and the wasted cross paths

research not just on food but on eating

It's not about food: the actions like ingestion, the states like edibility.

what do more sustainable communities even look like anyway and is that always the same as more just communities?

we rely on the idea that food brings us together, transcending racial and gender alliance to unify us in a shared love of cuisine, and I wish it were that simple, food is just as susceptible to the same oppressive power structures that impact every other part of our lives and we have to dismantle them.

Coertia(?) Wilson

now what? and I knew the work that a wanted to do wasnt just to continue to be reactionary... who are we when we take the trauma away? ... the work of visioning, the work of joy, the work of building something.

tanya fields

urban farm: im very intentional about not calling it a community garden it is an urban farm, that is the model.

we poor people working together to try to survive. some people talk about the concept of resilience, i think we wake up every day and we put on our clothes and we maybe get our bootstraps if we have them or they're not broken and we get up and we take care of our babies and our elders.

lisa tiny gray-garcia

there is no eating without provisioning

I wanted to think about what it feels like to be eaten alive by whiteness

kyla tompkins

why does whiteness feel like it's eating us alive?

we are addicted to the products of empire, there is no sweetness in our lives without colonial extraction and slavery... there is no sugar buzz until after colonialism and slavery

sylvia winter

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1536504214545763

i hope when I die I know as little as possible about coffee and wine as I can ever manage... im not interested in taste and I am interested in flavour. im really interested in how the ways we talk about food are often about the performance of class identity.

kyla tompkins

we need to figure out what it feels like to live in garbage, and some of us have been living in garbage all along.

i would challenge many of us that our ancestors who practiced this did not see it as preserving waste, it was an extension of their food system.

indigenous european cultures as an alternative to whiteness, rejecting and breaking the myth of whiteness. dunno maybe this makes sense in certain contexts its complicated though. in america in 2018 maybe a useful story but in europe in 2023 a bit too much nationalism going around.

the mother.

as soon as I slice an apple it is considered processed

legal limitations around food processing. new york city department of health and mental hygiene.

im not really selling food, people are giving it away as donations... there are barriers that keep people out

waste: thats what I was calling it, now remember language is important. and I remember one of the elders being like im from down south this wasnt waste, if you didnt can what surplus you had then you didnt eat during the winter.