Understanding Foodways through Oral History

Catalog description

This course focuses on critical works in the field of food studies that rely on oral history to analyze food within larger socio-cultural and political experiences. As an interdisciplinary field of research inherently centered on sensory and cultural experiences, oral histories open up different pathways to understand food. In addition to mastering the existing body of knowledge using oral histories, students will conduct oral history interviews that will expand our academic understanding of foodways through the work of oral history.