{"id":50,"date":"2023-04-04T10:51:37","date_gmt":"2023-04-04T14:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/matthewheadleypublichistory\/?p=50"},"modified":"2023-04-04T10:51:37","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T14:51:37","slug":"food-and-food-objects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/matthewheadleypublichistory\/2023\/04\/04\/food-and-food-objects\/","title":{"rendered":"Food and Food Objects:<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Material culture and objects tell a story that can be difficult to read but is essential nonetheless. The study in \u2018\u2019Do Objects Lie: A New Video for Teaching about Material Evidence\u2019\u2019 puts forward that objects can lie and be misleading, but by studying them we can find out the truth behind them. They do this in multiple ways, but one of these that I found interesting was the removal of the inclusion of the Native American in the Death of General Wolfe painting. The jug that is made later removed the Native American man, which they mention is part of the erasure of Native Americans and larger history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Immigrants and migrant workers are the backbone of America and continue to be left out of reaping any fair reward for their labor. The article \u2018\u2019Why Migrant Workers Feed Their Husbands Tamales: Foodways as a Basis for a Revisionist View of Tejano Family Life\u2019\u2019 by Brett Williams discusses the gendered labor and the economics of food consumption in the Tejano community in Illinois. Food production is gendered labor done by women, even though migrant families rely on all members of the home working. The ritual of celebrating with Tamales at the end of the harvest which they don\u2019t reap the rewards in comparison to the acknowledgment of the difficulty faces when all they have left in regards to food is tortillas the author makes showcases the difficulties these families face.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  The sisters Sara Bose and Winnifried Eaton who used the pseudonym Onoto Watanna published a cookbook in 1914. The article \u2018\u2019Food for Fantasy: Sara Bose and Onoto Watanna\u2019s 1914 Chinese-Japanese Cook Book\u2019\u2019 by M.E. Guth reflects on the cookbook these two sisters created, and how they brought East Asian culinary practices into the home of middle-class families in America. The author says the fantasy these women created was allowing people to live in a world outside of their own. Included in this are the commodification of East Asian objects and food, but also the prejudice and stereotypes associated with the East Asian migrants in America. The two sisters helped in redefining Chinese and Japanese culture to Americans as something beyond chopsticks and chop suey. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Disposable chopsticks helped popularize and drive the use of chopsticks by people outside the chopstick cultural sphere, which is what Q. Edward Wang argued in his book Chopsticks: A Culinary History. <\/em>He covers other topics such as how chopsticks differ in countries and why, as well as eating practices. Communal eating from shared dishes and the hygiene is something he discusses and this plays into the types of chopsticks in Japan, China, and Korea. Japan uses disposable chopsticks more than the other two countries, which has religious aspects tied to it from Shintoism as well as sustainability as they have access to a lot of trees. Koreans use metal chopsticks which are easier to clean and hardier. Where in China they typically use wooden chopsticks that are reusable with lacquer on them. He starts this chapter by saying that the word for chopsticks is the same as bridge in Japan.  Chicken was a staple of my diet when I was young. My family didn\u2019t have a lot of money, and chicken was cheap compared to other meats. I never knew of the association between poultry profitability and African Americans and their role in the commercial economy of poultry until reading Building Houses out of Chicken Legs. <\/em>The market in which slaves would buy and sell food or other objects allowed for some partial freedom to participate in the \u2018\u2019capitalist charade\u2019\u2019 was allowed by white slave owners and reinforced the idea that slaves wouldn\u2019t have freedom. The chicken and these markets became an avenue of change and agency though. The author argues this and that small victories in everyday life for black people can help reverse the stories of social power. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Material culture and objects tell a story that can be difficult to read but is essential nonetheless. The study in \u2018\u2019Do Objects Lie: A New Video for Teaching about Material Evidence\u2019\u2019 puts forward that objects can lie and be misleading, but by studying them we can find out the truth behind them. They do this … <\/p>\n

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