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Food, Identity & Nation

Food, identity & nation - Laurie Taylor explores all the reasons why we should take food seriously.

FOOD, IDENTITY AND NATION - At a time when many of us are feeling overstuffed by festive eating, Laurie Taylor asks why food matters. He鈥檚 joined by Paul Freedman, Chester D. Tripp Professor of History at Yale University, who explores food鈥檚 relationship to our sense of self, as well as to inequality and the environment. Joy Fraser, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Folklore at Memorial University, Newfoundland, Canada, also joins the conversation. She asks why Scottishness has so often been signified, in a derogatory way, through food - from haggis to the deep-fried Mars bar. Does it say something about the relationship between England and Scotland?

Producer: Jayne Egerton

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28 minutes

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Mon 10 Jan 2022 00:15

Guests and Further Reading

Why Food Matters (Yale University Press)




鈥淪ignifying Poverty, Class, and Nation through Scottish Foods: From Haggis to Deep-Fried Mars Bars鈥 (co-authored with Christine Knight) in The Emergence of National Food: The Dynamics of Food and Nationalism, ed. Atsuko Ichijo, Venetia Johannes, and Ronald Ranta (Bloomsbury)

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  • Wed 5 Jan 2022 16:00
  • Mon 10 Jan 2022 00:15

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