Food, Identity & Nation
Food, identity & nation - Laurie Taylor explores all the reasons why we should take food seriously.
FOOD, IDENTITY AND NATION - At a time when many of us are feeling overstuffed by festive eating, Laurie Taylor asks why food matters. He’s joined by Paul Freedman, Chester D. Tripp Professor of History at Yale University, who explores food’s relationship to our sense of self, as well as to inequality and the environment. Joy Fraser, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Folklore at Memorial University, Newfoundland, Canada, also joins the conversation. She asks why Scottishness has so often been signified, in a derogatory way, through food - from haggis to the deep-fried Mars bar. Does it say something about the relationship between England and Scotland?
Producer: Jayne Egerton
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Guests and Further Reading
Joy Fraser, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Folklore at Memorial University, Newfoundland, Canada
“Signifying Poverty, Class, and Nation through Scottish Foods: From Haggis to Deep-Fried Mars Bars” (co-authored with Christine Knight) in The Emergence of National Food: The Dynamics of Food and Nationalism, ed. Atsuko Ichijo, Venetia Johannes, and Ronald Ranta (Bloomsbury)
Broadcasts
- Wed 5 Jan 202216:00BBC Radio 4
- Mon 10 Jan 202200:15BBC Radio 4
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