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Against Heritage: The Reinvention of Traditional Foods
Author(s): Lily Kelting (Author)
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication Date: May 19 2026
- Language: English
- Print length: 244 pages
- ISBN-10: 1469694549
- ISBN-13: 9781469694542
Book Description
Weaving ethnography, discourse analysis, critical theory, and sensory, embodied critique, Kelting tracks and critiques the boom of traditional food revival movements in the American South, Denmark, and India. Ultimately, Kelting argues that the heritage culinary professionals wish to revive is equal parts nostalgia and invention: They engage, subvert, and ignore food histories in their creation of new food movements. As Kelting documents our contemporary moment, she shows how the conversations surrounding these new food movements leave out people already keeping their traditions alive.
Against Heritage, then, serves as a reparative revaluation of the work of the cooks largely excluded from the contemporary media conversation about heritage revival.Editorial Reviews
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