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Posted by Deborah Toner in Consuming Authenticities on July 3, 2015
In the story of pulque, we have so far thought about different origin stories about pulque and their role in political and cultural processes in Aztec Mexico. Being linked to the origin or discovery of pulque carried a certain prestige value, but why? In many ways, pulque was not singled out, but was one of […]
Posted in History of Alcohol, pulque, Time and Temporality | Tagged alcohol, Mexico, origin, pulque, tradition |
Posted by Deborah Toner in Consuming Authenticities on June 30, 2015
Here, people aren’t born, says Lázaro, my tourist guide. They come up on stage. They don’t die, they have a curtain call. The paulistas in the group find this comment very amusing. But Lázaro looks like he knows what he’s talking about. He’s a painter, and our driver is a ballet dancer. We are […]
Posted in Acarajé, Authenticity, History of Food | Tagged acaraje, authenticity, Brazil, colonialism, cooking, origin, place, recipes |
Posted by Deborah Toner in Consuming Authenticities on June 29, 2015
The storm comes from the sea. It’s like a curtain of fog. The Pestana is the first to go. Then, 5 minutes later, the Ondina Apart is covered. That’s when the rooftops go insane. Five kids carry on playing basketball in a communal field, blinking aquatically. Three others stand on a bus stop bench, […]
Posted in Acarajé, History of Food | Tagged acaraje, Brazil, locality, place
Posted by Deborah Toner in Consuming Authenticities on June 24, 2015
A couple of days before flying to Salvador on a research trip, I received a call from my brother. He was in Almada, a city located in the southern margin of the river Tagus, near Lisbon. He had found a bahiana do acarajé named Carolina Brito selling in a park, and wanted to tell me […]
Posted in Acarajé, Authenticity | Tagged acaraje, authenticity, Brazil, recipes, tradition
Posted by Deborah Toner in Consuming Authenticities on June 10, 2015
Our Consuming Authenticities project kicked off the papers in what would turn out to be a fantastic conference at the University of Leicester on 6-7 June. This was the New Directions in Drinking Studies conference that I mentioned in a previous post and that I have been organising with my Drinking Studies Network co-ordinator hat […]
Posted in Authenticity, cider, Conferences, History of Alcohol, pulque | Tagged alcohol, authenticity, beer, cider, craft producers, locality, Mexico, origin, pulque, Russia, tradition, Wales |
Posted by Deborah Toner in Consuming Authenticities on May 21, 2015
In October 1972, Brazilian foreign minister Gibson Barbosa went on a month-long trip to nine West African countries in order to develop closer economic and political relations with black Africa. In Ghana in particular, Gibson Barbosa had to endure hostile reactions to Brazil’s ties with Portugal, a country ruled at the time by […]
Posted in Acarajé, Authenticity, History of Food | Tagged acaraje, authenticity, Brazil, place, recipes, tradition
Posted by Deborah Toner in Consuming Authenticities on May 19, 2015
On Saturday, May 16th, we held a fascinating whole-day event at the National Library of Wales, where our collaborators shared their views and experiences on the different drink and food products we are investigating and discussed what factors and processes are involved into making them authentic. As expected, we had a great participation from Welsh craft […]
Posted in Authenticity, Care for the Future, Project Update | Tagged acaraje, authenticity, cider, collaborators' workshop, craft producers, flaounes, pulque |
Posted by Deborah Toner in Consuming Authenticities on May 16, 2015
Finally getting to meet everyone during the Collaborators’Workshop today at the National Library Wales; after months of sharing emails and planning. A really constructive session on Welsh craft cider with local cider producers Nikki, Kevin and James Sweet from Ceredigion and Gethin ap Dafydd and Julie Dafydd- Jones from Pembrokeshire. And then learning about pulque an […]
Posted in Acarajé, Authenticity, Care for the Future, cider, Flaounes, Project Update, pulque |
Posted by Deborah Toner in Consuming Authenticities on May 4, 2015
As with my previous experiment in making flaounes at Easter, I had never even heard of acarajé before starting the Consuming Authenticities project. In my initial conversations with Ana Martins about what case studies we could explore, we struggled to think of a Brazilian food or drink that could be analysed in terms of the […]
Posted in Acarajé, Cooking | Tagged acaraje, authenticity, cooking, recipes |
Posted by Deborah Toner in Consuming Authenticities on April 25, 2015
People’s Collection Wales field officer Gruffydd Jones has been out scanning material at http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/stfagans/ on behalf of Dr Emma-Jayne Abbots and Elaine Forde as part of the collaboration work for the Consuming Authenticities project. You can now view the live items on the PCW website at http://www.peoplescollection.wales/users/8326
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