Krishnendu Ray Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Was resisting it. My students talked me into it. The limits of food as art. Loved the Bread Plate... w/o bread! Accompaniments w/o company. Next week we are reading Carolyn Korsmeyer’s Making Sense of Taste… an argument with Immanuel Kant. Food as art. Is it? Should it? https://t.co/fH2Ml7OaCZ

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Brilliant!! Tomb of Sand, written by Geetanjali Shree and translated by Daisy Rockwell, has won the 2022 International Booker Prize for Translated Fiction. @shreedaisy https://t.co/H1YIynpxlj

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Nancy Um in The Merchant Houses of Mocha (2009) shows that coffee consumption became legible in Yemen ca. 1500 and spread after 1571. What developed into the coffee culture of European cities emerged from the court culture of the Ottoman Turks.

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Join us! I am excited about it. Just finished Rebecca’s little book on potatoes and her classic The Body of the Conquistador referenced extensively in Annemarie Mol’s recent book. Looking forward to reading Lara’s book after listening to her. And have read Melissa’s book twice! https://t.co/AJ1BaAURoB

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Blistering intensity of work. Taught an undergrad and a grad class today; phd candidate selection meetings; a podcast and an interview. Reading Alan Warde’s Eating in Practice for tomorrow’s graduate class. Prepping Parama Roy’s Alimentary Tracts for Thursday’s class… https://t.co/SchGTOpH9J

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Priya Basil, in Be My Guest, 2019, notes that we enter the world as guests, “helpless little creatures whose every need must be attended to, who for a long time can give nothing or very little back.” Is this not the arc of a life, to slowly become aware?

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Jeff Kohler’s reference to Arthur Rimbaud in Ethiopia as a coffee trader (for years!) sent me into this rabbit hole!! Chasing Rimbaud to Baudelaire. Re-reading some poems in a very long time https://t.co/DPrrlH7h0p

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An anthropological review of Edward F. Fischer’s Making Better Coffee: How Maya Farmers and Third-Wave Tastemakers Create Value. Another view of the recent Western dispersal of style and substance https://t.co/Rnm4hwZCYT

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Hopefully some Mexican greengrocers can find a footing here. My best fishmonger were two young Mexican men, but they could not survive the low expectation of their clientele used to weeks-old grocery store fish

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I read two pieces today: Indira Arumugam’s “Preserving Flesh and Spanning Families” about sun-dried meat and the Tamil palate; and Josée Johnston’s review of Alex Blanchette’s Porkopolis. Stunning book, and a stunning review. They recommend inefficiency… sometimes. @Gastronomica https://t.co/vwemBLCtYI