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The Taste of Nostalgia: Women, Race, and Culinary Longing in Peru

by Amy Cox Hall
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781477330289
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: University of Texas Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Texas Press
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 224
  • Original Price: GBP 27.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 454 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Regional & Cultural / Central American & South American, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, and History

An exploration of gender, race, and food in Peru in the 1950s and 1960s and today.

From the late 1940s to the mid 1960s, Peru's rapid industrialization and anti-communist authoritarianism coincided with the rise of mass-produced cookbooks, the first televised cooking shows, glossy lifestyle magazines, and imported domestic appliances and foodstuffs. Amy Cox Hall's The Taste of Nostalgia uses taste as a thematic and analytic thread to examine the ways that women, race, and the kitchen were foundational to Peruvian longings for modernity, both during the Cold War and today.

Drawing on interviews, personal stories, media images, and archival and ethnographic research, Cox Hall considers how elite, European-descended women and the urban home were central to Peru's modernizing project and finds that all women who labored within the deeply racialized and gendered world of food helped set the stage for a Peruvian food nationalism that is now global in the twenty-first century. Cox Hall skillfully connects how the sometimes-unsavory tastes of the past are served again in today's profitable and pervasive gastronostalgia that helps sell Peru and its cuisine both at home and abroad.

Amy Cox Hall is a writer and cultural anthropologist. She is the author of Framing a Lost City: Science, Photography and the Making of Machu Picchu and an editor of The Camera as Actor: Photography and the Embodiment of Technology.

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