ERC Consolidator Grant · 2023
Trajectories of taste: An analytical framework of culinary change after migration
How and why do cuisines change after migration? The TASTE Project offers a novel approach to study the global spread of cooking techniques, products, dishes, recipes, food practices, and taste hierarchies. By focusing on three relatively old Indonesian diasporas (of Suriname, Sri Lanka, and South Africa), its researchers address the following hypotheses: 1. What people choose to eat is primarily driven by embodied notions of taste; 2. Food preferences are inherited and exchanged; 3. Culinary change significantly resembles linguistic change. Culinary change is yet to be analyzed comprehensively. While we know from earlier studies that flavor affects food preferences and that migration…
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