NFS 033 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Gift Card
17 Apr 2018
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A practice long associated with gender (women"s work), race (slave & immigrant work), and class. Cooking is an everyday practice that no longer tethered to individual identities or domestic settings. Learning to cook remains an necessity and mechanisms for learning have shifted. Our approach : humans act with agency in regards to food, they have the ability to comprehend, predict, and alter the course of their encounters with foods. Some individuals act with more agency than others: they confidently and actively identify, pursue, and accomplish food-related goals. Others passively participate in the food system, taking the path of least-resistance, often leads to nutritional detriment. First premise: we all reveal our skills, and how we use our skills in context, through unconscious gestures. Second premise: all cooks must first learn how to cook, and that is not easy. Developed a food agency scale (fas): a battery of items meant to access food agency as a latent but quantifiable construct.
