Creative Writing Question
Learning Goal: I’m working on a creative writing question and need an explanation and answer to help me learn.
Ethnic Foodways:
Foodways are the combined social, economic, material, and cultural practices that determine the way people eat.
Throughout history and across space, foodways have always been dynamic. When immigrants come to the United States, they bring with them distinctive foodways. These foodways become transformed as a result of influences from more dominant foodways (power structures), but they also may influence dominant foodways in turn (consider pizza, for instance). Therefore, it is important to understand how ethnic foodways shape and are shaped by places.
Your objective in this assignment is to consider an ethnic foodway outside of your own familial/cultural experience and norms and study it in detail. You will be required to do background research using at least 3 academic sources and 1 original source. The original source must be from an immigrant or 1st generation in USA person who can speak to:
The cuisine under discussion from the home country,
How the cuisine has evolved since coming to the USA (adaptations due to the market demand, availability of products, etc.),
What has happened to the 2nd and/or 3rd generation – how close to authentic do they hew to the cuisine origins
Due to Covid, a telephone and/or a Zoom/Skype interview with the original source is acceptable.
The paper should be 1700-2000 words.
You are required to consult and cite at least four academic/scholarly sources, which may include academic articles, books published by academic presses, or academic encyclopedias. You may decide to consult the Encyclopedia of Food and Culture (Katz and Weaver, 2002), which includes entries on national and regional cuisines.
Katz, S. & Weaver, W. (2003). Encyclopedia of Food and Culture. New York: Scribner.
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