Red beans and rebuilding. An iconic dish, memory and culture in New Orleans

Beriss, David

doi:10.1016/j.appet.2010.11.164

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“…Pre-Katrina, some of the most common forms of engagement were donating food to fundraising events and giving grants to local non-profits. Importantly, Beriss (2012) argues that African American chefs and their restaurants have been more likely to receive recognition for their charitable and community work, rather than for the quality of their cuisine. The emergence and formalization of new chef foundations post-Katrina (as we outline above) raised the philanthropic and humanitarian profiles of certain chefs onto the national stage.…”

Section: Celebrity Foodscape Interventions Have Been Robust Ranging F...mentioning

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New Orleans’ “restaurant renaissance,” chef humanitarians, and the New Southern food movement

Firth

Passidomo

2021

Food, Culture & Society

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In this paper, we situate New Orleans' post-Katrina "restaurant renaissance" within a context of historical and contemporary racial and gender inequities. This context provides a space for critical consideration of the celebratory narratives popularly attached to the city's most prominent chefs and their roles in "rebuilding" New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Our critique focuses on the practice of chef "celanthropy" (celebrity philanthropy) and the contradictions often underlying that practice. While we situate this critique in New Orleans, our analysis is more broadly applicable to what Lily Kelting has described as the "New Southern Food Movement." This movement relies on contradictory tropes of pastoral utopian pasts and harmonious multicultural futures that elide white male hegemony within the food industry, and southern food's grounding in colonialism and enslavement.

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Section: Celebrity Foodscape Interventions Have Been Robust Ranging F...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…We posit that there are several intersecting reasons for the significant philanthropic activity in New Orleans' foodscapes. As discussed above, the city's food culture and culinary traditions are unique in the United States and much-celebrated (Beriss 2012).…”

Section: Food Tourism and The New Orleans Cultural Economymentioning

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New Orleans’ “restaurant renaissance,” chef humanitarians, and the New Southern food movement

Firth

Passidomo

2021

Food, Culture & Society

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“…Scholars in the field are engaged in conversation with several of the broader discipline's principal analytical trends, including (a) Foucauldian-informed analyses of problematization, (b) governmentality and biopolitics (Collier & Lakoff 2015, Marchezini 2015, (c) ethnographically grounded critiques of neoliberalism (Gunewardena & Schuller 2008), and (d) science and technology studies (STS)-inspired theorization of human-material relations and agency (Masco 2009). Cutting across these topics is a continued concern with postcolonial critiques of national orders and subalternity (Browne 2015;Hsu et al 2015;Jackson 2011a,b;Lipsitz 2006) as well as affect theory and memory (Barrios 2017, Beriss 2012, Samuels 2015, Simpson 2013, Ullberg 2013. In this section, I review the engagement of disaster anthropology with the above-listed trends and provide an overview of the various kinds of topics and hazards that concern anthropologists as well as the conceptual directions in which this latter hazard-oriented work takes the field.…”

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What Does Catastrophe Reveal for Whom? The Anthropology of Crises and Disasters at the Onset of the Anthropocene

Barrios

2017

Annu. Rev. Anthropol.

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The modernist usage of the word crisis conveys the idea of an event that acts as a historical judgment, marks an epochal transition, and sometimes leads to a utopian era. Furthermore, current uses of crisis in the political sphere often figure catastrophic events as the result of errors and malfunctions, drawing attention away from the quotidian and normatively accepted practices and policies that produce them. Anthropological definitions of disaster, in contrast, understand catastrophes as the end result of historical processes by which human practices enhance the materially destructive and socially disruptive capacities of geophysical phenomena, technological malfunctions, and communicable diseases and inequitably distribute disaster risk according to lines of gender, race, class, and ethnicity. Despite this fundamental difference between customary and scholarly definitions of crises and disasters, the former term is commonly used to refer to the latter by political elites and academics alike. This article reviews the merits and limitations of the crisis concept in the analysis of disasters on the basis of anthropological research on catastrophes during the last 40 years and provides an overview of the analytical diversification of disaster anthropology since the 1970s.

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Red beans and rebuilding. An iconic dish, memory and culture in New Orleans

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New Orleans’ “restaurant renaissance,” chef humanitarians, and the New Southern food movement

New Orleans’ “restaurant renaissance,” chef humanitarians, and the New Southern food movement

What Does Catastrophe Reveal for Whom? The Anthropology of Crises and Disasters at the Onset of the Anthropocene

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