My food is closely tied to my identity. This is something I have known all my life. I had a very conscious idea about it since I was old enough to realise that I was not just a member of my family, but the society I lived in, and most of the time during my formative years, these did not often coincide. My family's food and the society's food were quite different, distinguishable according to the senses of sight, smell, touch and taste; if food could speak, then my family's food would probably have differed markedly from my society's food in that aspect, too.
By writing this blog, without actually realising it at the time, I was basically trying to put together the pieces of my own identity. So I view it as a privilege to have been asked to speak about the relationship of food and identity at the First Symposium of Greek Gastronomy on Cretan Cuisine, which will be taking place in mid-July, in the village of Akaranou, Hania, Crete.
How is food related to identity? I would like to talk about the relationship I have found in food and identity, using thoughts and discussions from writing this food blog and interacting with readers (yes, that's you), using the following ideas as my guide:
See you in a couple or so weeks!
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By writing this blog, without actually realising it at the time, I was basically trying to put together the pieces of my own identity. So I view it as a privilege to have been asked to speak about the relationship of food and identity at the First Symposium of Greek Gastronomy on Cretan Cuisine, which will be taking place in mid-July, in the village of Akaranou, Hania, Crete.
How is food related to identity? I would like to talk about the relationship I have found in food and identity, using thoughts and discussions from writing this food blog and interacting with readers (yes, that's you), using the following ideas as my guide:
- our mothers' food
- the food of the society we live in
- migration patterns
- the food we associate with festivals
- the role of education in our perception of food
- the memories we associate with food
- commerce and trade
See you in a couple or so weeks!
©All Rights Reserved/Organically cooked. No part of this blog may be reproduced and/or copied by any means without prior consent from Maria Verivaki.
Good Luck, Maria!
ReplyDeleteI have not found my food identity or voice since I live in a melting pot of cultures, but perhaps that in itself is mine.
ReplyDeleteLook forward to more, but I am struggling with the concept of my identity in conjunction with food. To me it's an unknown. I have lived all my life with multicultural/world food. I have my food/taste preferences, and none of them are connected to my nationality or the country I was born in, let alone what I consider my personal identity!
ReplyDeleteDear Maria, This is an excellent outline of your presentation at the symposium. Easy and pleasant to follow - exeis ena poli wraio eirmo skepsis! Looking forward to read the presentation and I wish you the very best of luck!
ReplyDeleteJust looking at that table set on that veranda and the white houses and the trees makes me incredibly nostalgic. What a bore to have to drag myself to Leicester in fifty minutes' time. Good luck with the talk.
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to the debriefing of that :-D
ReplyDeletethanks AA - it's amazing how the above ideas simply flowed into this post, which helped me organise my thoughts; after four years of food blogging, this is what i think i have been talking about all that time...
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