Savoring Nostalgia: Food and the Past in Peru’s “La Casa de Don Cucho”
This article situates nostalgia as part of the current gastronomic boom and gastro-politics currently at play in Peru. Although recent emphasis on gastronomy as a national economic development plan is clearly rooted in neoliberal themes of entrepreneurship and marketization, idealized notions of the...
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Anthropology of food
2019
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| Shrnutí: | This article situates nostalgia as part of the current gastronomic boom and gastro-politics currently at play in Peru. Although recent emphasis on gastronomy as a national economic development plan is clearly rooted in neoliberal themes of entrepreneurship and marketization, idealized notions of the past are being invoked not only to foster food entrepreneurship but also a critical food politics. Drawing primarily on the work of Kathleen Stewart and Alberto Flores Galindo, this paper highlights two types of nostalgia currently at work in the food boom. The first situates the past as a potentially profitable commodity from which to build profit and prestige while the second invokes the past to critique modernity’s ruins. Consequently, nostalgia should not be dismissed as mere romanticism but rather a potentially political act rooted in current realities of loss and suffering, wielded to conjure a new way of being in the world. |
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