The Taste of Nostalgia

Women, Race, and Culinary Longing in Peru

Amy Cox Hall (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

224 Seiten

2024
University of Texas Press (Verlag)
978-1-4773-3027-2 (ISBN)

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An exploration of gender, race, and food in Peru in the 1950s and 1960s and today.

From the late 1940s to the mid 1960s, Peru’s rapid industrialization and anti-communist authoritarianism coincided with the rise of mass-produced cookbooks, the first televised cooking shows, glossy lifestyle magazines, and imported domestic appliances and foodstuffs. Amy Cox Hall’s The Taste of Nostalgia uses taste as a thematic and analytic thread to examine the ways that women, race, and the kitchen were foundational to Peruvian longings for modernity, both during the Cold War and today.

Drawing on interviews, personal stories, media images, and archival and ethnographic research, Cox Hall considers how elite, European-descended women and the urban home were central to Peru’s modernizing project and finds that all women who labored within the deeply racialized and gendered world of food helped set the stage for a Peruvian food nationalism that is now global in the twenty-first century. Cox Hall skillfully connects how the sometimes-unsavory tastes of the past are served again in today’s profitable and pervasive gastronostalgia that helps sell Peru and its cuisine both at home and abroad.

Amy Cox Hall is a writer and cultural anthropologist. She is the author of Framing a Lost City: Science, Photography and the Making of Machu Picchu and an editor of The Camera as Actor: Photography and the Embodiment of Technology.

List of Illustrations
Excerpt: A
Introduction: Mise en Place
Excerpt: B
Chapter 1: Hemispheric Tastes
Excerpt: C
Chapter 2: A Tasteful Home
Excerpt: D
Chapter 3: Aftertaste
Excerpt: Rosita Ríos
Chapter 4: Blending Modern Taste
Excerpt: E
Chapter 5: National Taste
Excerpt: Dulcería Santa Rosa
Chapter 6: Corporate Taste
Excerpt: Blanca Chavéz
Chapter 7: A Taste of Home
Excerpt: F and G
Conclusion: Savoring Nostalgia
Methodological Afterword
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	26.11.2024
Zusatzinfo	33 b&w illustrations
Verlagsort	Austin, TX
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Essen / Trinken ► Länderküchen
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4773-3027-5 / 1477330275
ISBN-13	978-1-4773-3027-2 / 9781477330272
Zustand	Neuware