AMS 55 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Resistance 3, Cuisine Of The Southwestern United States, Neocolonialism

• School: UC-Davis
• Department: American Studies
• Course: AMS 55
• Professor: Charlotte Biltekoff

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Lecture 8 culinary tourism and culinary colonialism. Or a form of colonialism: culinary tourism, culinary colonialism, culinary cosmopolitism, neutralization and domination. Understanding food practices: agency: people make choices and shape the world they live in, structure: enduring social patterns shape human behavior, we make choices and we make them within constraints. Wikipedia: culinary tourism or food tourism is the exploration of food as the purpose of tourism. It is considered a vital component of the tourism experience. Dining out is common among tourists a(cid:374)d (cid:862)food is (cid:271)elie(cid:448)ed to ra(cid:374)k alo(cid:374)gside (cid:272)li(cid:373)ate, a(cid:272)(cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)odatio(cid:374), a(cid:374)d s(cid:272)e(cid:374)ery(cid:863) is important to tourists. It includes any tourism experience in which a person learns about, appreciates, consumes or dare we say indulge in food and drink that reflects that local cuisine, heritage, or culture of a place. Culinary tourism: a food-(cid:271)ased e(cid:374)(cid:272)ou(cid:374)ter (cid:449)ith a(cid:374) u(cid:374)fa(cid:373)iliar (cid:272)ulture that rei(cid:374)for(cid:272)es the tourist"s ide(cid:374)tity as an adventuresome and sophisticated person.