SOC 377 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Madhur Jaffrey, Curry Puff, French Cuisine
25 Apr 2019
School
Department
Course
Professor
Colonial Cultures in the Kitchen
- Food and identity
- Interaction of colonizers and the colonized in the domestic sphere: women, native men,
and the agency
- Colonizers and the colonize
- Settler colonies: Mexico and Israel
Who created curry?
- Madhur Jaffrey
- Tamil word kari
- Meat and vegetable in a sauce: Middle East- tankini
- 1930: cook of English King Richard II: The Forme of cury
- Zlotnick
- *no Indian name for curry
Colonial Creation of Curry
- Colonialism of the cheap
- Two key developments in the mid 1800’s
- Improvements in transport technologies
- Greater distance between rulers and the rules
Adapting Indian INgredients, Techniques
- Chutney- Chutney
- Kedgeree- Khichdi
- Mulligatawny- Malaga Tarn
- Curry puff- form samosa
- *change english cuisine as what subsumed english cuisine
Settler Colonies: Mexico
- People of wheat vs. people of corn
- Mexicanidad
- Tortilla
Mexico
- French cuisine from the elite
- Creolized
- Mexican revolution of 1910
Settler Colonialism: Israel
- Ashkenazi Jews
