ITALIAN 3 Lecture 3: Foodscapes Readings Week 3
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Pay attention to legacy landscapes within the city. Contemplate representations - embrace your inner tourist and become a postcard analyst. Close your eyes and hear the city flow. Make the landscape visible by adjusting your perspective. Look for what you don"t see at first. Put on your hard hat and think like a civil engineer. Once you locate a boundary, ask how permeable it is. Pay attention to your own sense of surprise. Read a city"s profile - contemplate the skyline. Think about who keeps this place clean. Look for landscapes of power in public areas. Analyze the ways that people co-opt spaces for their own uses. Keep your eyes peeled for class markers. Food is also an occasion for sharing, for distributing and giving, for the expression of altruism, whether from parents to children, children to in-laws, or anyone to visitors and strangers. Modern nutritionists chanted the litany of the four food types (vegetables, grains, dairy products, meats)
