Narrating Food, Tasting Words: A Culinary Adventure through Hispanic & Lusophone Worlds

This course explores cultural representations of local, regional, and national culinary traditions in the Spanish-speaking world. Drawing on music, film, television series, poetry, fiction, and visual art, we will explore how food and food culture reflects, creates, maps, and projects countries and regions from Spain to Latin America locally, nationally, and internationally. We will also examine connections between food and the environment and diet and class, as well as other aspects of identity manifested in eating habits. In addition to our weekly meetings, we will come together every 3-4 weeks to prepare a class meal based on regional cuisines. This course focuses on creating: from a class recipe book to creative and academic projects. The class will be taught in Spanish with elements of Portuguese, English, African, Indigenous, and other cultural traditions tied to the cuisines of the Spanish-speaking world.