Over spring break, I was honored to introduce 16 middle schoolers from Indianapolis to food anthropology through the lens of bread. They were completing a two-week intensive course on bread, when for two weeks all their other classes were put on hold and they learned about bread through every school subject. While in Bloomington to…
Tag: The Senses
Reminiscents: Greek Mountain Tea, Scent, and Memory
I hold the tea like a bouquet of flowers, thumbing the soft fuzz of leaves and buds clinging to brittle, woody stalks.[1] I breathe in and smell incense: the inside of a small church on Monastiraki square where I stop to light a candle; a censor waved by the German teens who dress up as…
Tasting Sweetness
The human experience of flavor, of tasting and eating, uses all of our senses. We interact with our food using every sensory mechanism in our body: most of us hear, see, feel, smell, and taste food when we eat. In this mediation, I invite you to engage your senses fully and mindfully by consuming a…
nostalgia, νοσταλγία, and saudade
“Which kinds of memories does food have the particular capacity to inscribe?” (Holtzman 2006, 363) Holtzman reminds us that memory is multiple, that “what we homonymically label as ‘memory’ often refers to an array of very different processes” (2006, 362). In this exhortation for diversity, I read a call for nuance in types of…
Ariana Gunderson 