Two months ago, Kim Saira, a TikTok and Instagram influencer, started a petition against the “Spill Your Guts or Fill Your Guts” segment from the CBS’s “The Late Late Show”, as the segment contained contents that ridiculed non-Anglo foods which are actually delicacies in other cuisines, such as balut and chicken feet. Last week, the petition concluded with a promise from James Corden that no Asian foods would be featured on his show again. (NBC News) Why this is such big of a deal that 41k people joined the petition? In this week’s newsletter, you will learn about how food is the manifestation of culture and plays an important role in discovering/reassuring one’s identity, and understand the implicit racism behind reactions to foreign/unfamiliar objects.

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LEARN | Food Culture in Colonial Asia: A Taste of Empire

Food Culture in Colonial Asia traces the foodways and cuisine associated with the British expatriates who governed and settled in India, Malaysia and Singapore between 1858 and 1963. A major argument of the book is that this cuisine can only be understood in light of the dependence of the British on their servants. The resulting cuisine was a hybrid of British expectations, preferences and habits around mealtimes together with local knowledge, foods and practices. 

LEARN | Ethnic and Regional Foodways in the United States: The Performance of Group Identity

How do customs surrounding the preparation and consumption of food define minorities within a population? The question receives fascinating and multifaceted answers in this book, which considers a smorgasbord of dishes that sustain group identity and often help to bridge inter-group barriers. The essays explore the symbolic meaning of sharing foodways in interpreting inter- and intra-group behavior.

ACT | Center for Food and Culture

Established in 2011 as a legal entity, the Center for Food and Culture focuses on developing materials for classroom and community education, including curricula and teaching aids, documentary videos and podcasts, foodways calendars, and content for the informational website.

GIVE | Center for Economic Inclusion

Sources

James Corden [Online Image]. Retrieved from https://www.rollingstone.com/tv/tv-news/james-corden-late-late-show-spill-your-guts-backlash-1190354/

Food Culture in Colonial Asia [Online Image]. Retrieved from https://www.routledge.com/Food-Culture-in-Colonial-Asia-A-Taste-of-Empire/Leong-Salobir/p/book/9781138785151

Foodways [Online Image]. Retrieved from https://www.bibliovault.org/thumbs/978-0-87049-419-2-frontcover.jpg

Food and Culture [Online Image, Text]. Retrieved from https://foodandculture.org/

Center for Economic Inclusion [Online Image, Text]. Retrieved from https://www.centerforeconomicinclusion.org/

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