- Our Working Package focuses on food as a fundamental element of heritage - and therefore a very important one in times of crisis. By adding culinary traditions to other forms of heritage, WP6 establishes an innovative synergy and adds value to the project by bringing together the cultural construction and invention of traditions, social practices, public policies and marketing strategies. Balanced between historical studies, an interest in the role of food for identities in education, and dissemination, WP6 reaches back to the historical roots of culinary traditions as intangible heritage. It aims to deconstruct inventions and stereotypes of food. Adopting a historical perspective, it highlights the geteilte Geschichte (a history both shared and divided) of European cuisine, as well as the food plays a role in shifting over borders or between dimensions, i.e. local, national, and European. It also uses gender as a useful category of analysis. The transmission of recipes and traditions is strongly embedded in local, regional and national identities; it is crucial for the self-perception of communities; it is deeply rooted in gender relationships. Traditionally women were devoted to the preparation of food and kept the memory of recipes. Since professional cooking has acquired social and economic value, men powerfully entered in this arena. The recent media turn of culinary practices is also deeply gendered. The WP research will engage with these gender aspects which strongly influenced the status of food as symbolic capital of food as cultural heritage and social distinction marker.
CoHERE Critical heritages and Europeanisation WP6 Food as Heritage - Horizon 2020
Porciani Ilaria
Membro del Collaboration Group
2019
Abstract
- Our Working Package focuses on food as a fundamental element of heritage - and therefore a very important one in times of crisis. By adding culinary traditions to other forms of heritage, WP6 establishes an innovative synergy and adds value to the project by bringing together the cultural construction and invention of traditions, social practices, public policies and marketing strategies. Balanced between historical studies, an interest in the role of food for identities in education, and dissemination, WP6 reaches back to the historical roots of culinary traditions as intangible heritage. It aims to deconstruct inventions and stereotypes of food. Adopting a historical perspective, it highlights the geteilte Geschichte (a history both shared and divided) of European cuisine, as well as the food plays a role in shifting over borders or between dimensions, i.e. local, national, and European. It also uses gender as a useful category of analysis. The transmission of recipes and traditions is strongly embedded in local, regional and national identities; it is crucial for the self-perception of communities; it is deeply rooted in gender relationships. Traditionally women were devoted to the preparation of food and kept the memory of recipes. Since professional cooking has acquired social and economic value, men powerfully entered in this arena. The recent media turn of culinary practices is also deeply gendered. The WP research will engage with these gender aspects which strongly influenced the status of food as symbolic capital of food as cultural heritage and social distinction marker.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
