GGR208H5 Lecture Notes - Julia Child, Comfort Food, Foodie
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Heldike experimented with other cultural food because perhaps in a way she was tired of white . American food that has no excitement and is bland. Hence she started to connect the food of a culture in a macro scale. If it"s exploitative of me to eat the foods of marginalized others in casual ignorance, with no regard for the cultural context of those foods, then what is it to refuse to eat the food of the other. This aspect of exploitation of the other she coins as cultural food colonialism where eating the food of third-world countries made her a colonizer, which maintains the colonizer-colonized dynamic. They article they provide analyses how cultural consumption sustains status distinctions. Hamburgers are being featured for the elite class essentially high end society has been incorporating poor food . American comfort food (i. e. macaroni and cheese, hot dog, eggs, bacon, burgers etc. ) into their high end lifestyle.
