Foodies: chp 2
Foodies: chp 3
Food Fight
Course Connections
Real-life Applications
100
What term does Johnston and Baumann claim to be socially constructed
What is authenticity?
100
What is culinary colonialism?
What is a subjective form of colonialism that accompanies and legitimizes economic forms of colonialism while subordinating and appropriation the food cultures and economies of the global south?
100
A common food found in North American Mexican dining that are not actually apart of traditional Mexican cuisine
What is V-shaped taco shells?
100
How does structural power relate to this weeks content?
e.g what is structural power can give taco bell the ability to shape the agenda (week 8) / ideas of mexican cuisine (week 11) and exercise control over networks and resources
100
Name a current day example of a restaurant that appropriates a culture and how they do so
e.g taco bell does not serve authentic mexican cuisine that they claim they do (takes away from latin culture in order to conform to north american desires)
200
Name one of the two things that Johnston and Baumann claims to shape authenticity
What is time and space?
200
Which term is used to describe the "relentless search for exotic new ingredients, new cuisines and undiscovered food"
What is Food Adventuring?
200
What is Mary Louise Pratt's notion of "contact zone"
What is how geographically separated peoples come into contact and establish relations, while preserving the circumstances of racial inequality and conflict
200
Explain two examples of orientalism within this weeks content
what is e.g 1) culinary exoticism (Foodies)
2) Cultural colonialism (Foodies)
200
From last weeks look at Chef Allison Roman, discuss why people were upset with her recipes and how it is relevant to this weeks content
What is she lacked acknowledgement of culture and tradition within the dishes she made?
300
Describe and discuss one of the dimensions of authenticity
What is geographically specific, person connection, simplicity, history and tradition, ethnic connection?
300
Exotic foods are predicated on these two factors
What is breaking norms and social distance?
300
Describe the term "Latinism"
What is a discursive process of stereotypical mass media representations of Latinos as construction of LA and US latinx in a manner that justifies US’ imperialistic goals
300
Based on the Harrison reading, how does her notion of segregation through race relate to Martinez-Cruz reading
What is segregation of Mexican people and their culture through means exclusion
300
Within Miller's article, describe the issue with the location of Ripe.
What is that it is located right across the street from Golden Turtle — a restaurant that has been serving authentic pho and Vietnamese cuisine since 1987 and has been struggling to survive amid the pandemic?
400
Why does Johnston and Baumann associate dress code (within restaurant setting) to be a bad thing?
What is seen as pretentious and that simplicity akin to humbleness, taken as evidence of straightforward & honest food experience?
400
What are Johnston and Baumann referring to when they reference "the dominant culture"
What is the inherent power dynamics between producers and consumers of ethnic heritage
400
Where did the term "cake walk" (an example of blackface minstrelsy) begin?
What is that it began as a Black imitation of movements witnessed at White balls. This fabric of misinterpreted parodies of Whites by Blacks then became the “truth” for audiences that propagated the myth of Blacks as moronic and docile, capable of breaking into spontaneous violence
400
Relating back to Harrisons reading in week 5, how does Taco Bell and Harrison's notion of stereotyping connect
What is that stereotypes are created to gain profit maximization
400
Describe the differences in the ways that Roman and Baird handled their criticisms revolving around cultural ignorance
What is Roman denied any acknowledgement of culture whereas Baird took full responsibility for her actions and removed all the products on her website that are "culturally insensitive" and halted all wholesale sales of the products as well?
500
How does Johnston and Baumann relate authenticity to country music?
What is how authenticity is produced not only by a singer’s genuineness and uniqueness, but also by his or her relationship to a tradition within country music?
500
Fill in this chart:
Authentic | Inauthentic
|
Exotic |
________________|______________________
|
Non-Exotic |
|
|
500
"Bear the imprint of specific colonial impulses that tend to be coded as mexican celebration of moral decadence" is a definition of which term?
What is exotic other?
500
List two similarities between last weeks Lutgendorf (Chai) reading and this weeks readings
e.g 1) chai - tea came out as 100% indigenous which made it okay to drink because it is indian
food fight - the word “authentic” clings to almost every conversation that nonMexicans have about their favorite Mexican restaurants, because it means that they are doing a thing “right”
2) chai - commodification of national or cultural identity
food fight - taco bell did the same with mexican culture
500
List 2 actions which Baird could have taken to prevent the harm-caused by her brand and the partnership
e.g 1) collaborated with members of asian community
2) drawn from her own culture for inspiration