LEC 1 - Carole Delaney Flashcards
DELANEY paper title
Food for Thought
DELANEY Plainness of British cuisine =
reservedness
DELANEY - Food and Cul Evo?
Yes. Indication of “stages” ala Lewis
DELANEY - the “terroir” of food (French)
abstract qualities of “essence” and “origins”
DELANEY - food as “ideological state apparatus” in – ?
Japan
DELANEY - What do Turks think of Americans as “multi-ethnic” eaters?
No culture.
DELANEY - food guide / pyramid recalled because
dairy and meat industries upset
DELANEY - What is wrong with “Mediterranean” diet?
It supposes a sameness of very disparate countries, based solely on basic ingredients in a chaotic medley without culture.
DELANEY “classification systems” =
hoofed or cloven hoofed? … In Judaism and Christianity
DELANEY - Mary Douglas calls the problem of hygiene and health as a basis for religious taboos =
medical materialism
DELANEY - pig is out because pig differs in 2 ways:
cloven hoof and not ruminant
DELANEY - Jorges Luis Borges - “instead of classifying animals as ‘mammals’ or ‘insects’ - why not …?”
call them “work animals” or “for embalming” or “deities”?
DELANEY - Edmund Leach say what?
A) Normal food B) consciously tabooed food (pork is food but we don’t eat it) C) unconsciously tabooed food (dogs in Europe)
DELANEY - Sahlins claims that beef is …
both celebrated, expensive, and incredibly common (surplus) – so WHY is it sought after?
DELANEY - taste reflects one’s preferences, it doesn’t …
explain them
