Slow Food, White feminists writing and speaking about "ethnic" kitchens
So I like the idea of Slow Food very much. Slowing down, cooking for ourselves rather than grabbing something on the way to somewhere, paying attention to ingredients, flavor. Also, sustainability and local foods. Paying attention.
What I don't like is the prospect of privileged consumerism masquerading as environmentalism. So I was hopeful but cautious about our local Slow Food chapter.
And this is the brunch they're sponsoring today:
"Delicious vegetarian or vegan meal overlooking Long Island Sound at the famed Bloodroot restaurant. Engaging talk by our Terra Madre delegate, Patricia Klindienst, award-winning scholar and author of The Earth Knows My Name: Food, Culture, and Sustainability in the Gardens of Ethnic Americans."
Uh oh. "Ethnic Americans." Patricia Klindienst. Who is she?
"Patricia Klindienst is the author of the celebrated and widely reviewed recent book, The Earth Knows my Name: Food, Culture, & Sustainability in the Gardens of Ethnic Americans (Beacon Press, 2006). In her own description, this book is the first to "restore the cultural meaning of gardens created by ethnic Americans, including Native Americans, Gullah descendants of West African slaves, Hispanics whose ancestors came with the conquistadors, and immigrants from across Europe and Asia." She has also published recent essays that connect gardening to conservation, the construction of memory, ethnic cleansing. She has taught at Yale, Wesleyan and Connecticut College, and her distinguished record of academic publication includes the landmark feminist essays, "The Voice of the Shuttle is Ours," Stanford Literature Review, I:i (Spring) 1984, pp. 25-53, and "Philomela's Loom," Epilogue, Coming to Light: American Women Poets in the Twentieth Century, eds. Middlebrook and Yalom, (University of Michigan Press, 1985), pp. 254-267."
Emphasis mine.
Crap. Well, I guess I could go and work on education and working from within etc.
Anyone know of any food/sustainability groups that are not about promoting the careers of appropriating White feminists?
What I don't like is the prospect of privileged consumerism masquerading as environmentalism. So I was hopeful but cautious about our local Slow Food chapter.
And this is the brunch they're sponsoring today:
"Delicious vegetarian or vegan meal overlooking Long Island Sound at the famed Bloodroot restaurant. Engaging talk by our Terra Madre delegate, Patricia Klindienst, award-winning scholar and author of The Earth Knows My Name: Food, Culture, and Sustainability in the Gardens of Ethnic Americans."
Uh oh. "Ethnic Americans." Patricia Klindienst. Who is she?
"Patricia Klindienst is the author of the celebrated and widely reviewed recent book, The Earth Knows my Name: Food, Culture, & Sustainability in the Gardens of Ethnic Americans (Beacon Press, 2006). In her own description, this book is the first to "restore the cultural meaning of gardens created by ethnic Americans, including Native Americans, Gullah descendants of West African slaves, Hispanics whose ancestors came with the conquistadors, and immigrants from across Europe and Asia." She has also published recent essays that connect gardening to conservation, the construction of memory, ethnic cleansing. She has taught at Yale, Wesleyan and Connecticut College, and her distinguished record of academic publication includes the landmark feminist essays, "The Voice of the Shuttle is Ours," Stanford Literature Review, I:i (Spring) 1984, pp. 25-53, and "Philomela's Loom," Epilogue, Coming to Light: American Women Poets in the Twentieth Century, eds. Middlebrook and Yalom, (University of Michigan Press, 1985), pp. 254-267."
Emphasis mine.
Crap. Well, I guess I could go and work on education and working from within etc.
Anyone know of any food/sustainability groups that are not about promoting the careers of appropriating White feminists?