[Sarai Newsletter] August 2008- Talk @ Sarai by Krishnendu Ray

[The Sarai Programme]

*Newsletter- August 2008- Talk @ Sarai
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*You are invited to an illustrated talk by Dr. Krishnendu Ray at Sarai- 
CSDS. Please read on for details:

*Making the Edible Legible: American Restaurants in Print, 1830-2006
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*Talk by: Dr. Krishnendu Ray
Venue: Seminar Room, CSDS
Date: 8th August
Time: 3:30 pm*

Cuisine happens when cooking leaves the kitchen, in the first instance 
when it  escapes the domestic kitchen, and in the second instance, when 
it spreads onto the print media to give durability to the talk about 
taste. Based on detailed archival work and quantitative data this 
presentation seeks to measure the talk about restaurants in American 
newspapers from its first appearance in 1830 to the present. The 
restaurant kitchen is the space of mongrel borderland -- an orality of 
Hispanidad, Bengali, Cantonese, and Hakka -- and the dining room a 
pedigreed and printed Anglophone parlor with Francophile accents. This 
work looks at taste and toil as a dynamic, dialogic relationship between 
producers and consumers of commodified cuisine. 


Dr. Krishnendu Ray is Assistant Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies and 
Public Health at New York University. He is the author of The Migrants' 
Table (Temple Univ Press, 2004), and has taught for a decade at the 
Culinary Institute of America.

Hope you will make yourself available for the event.

Best,
Mitoo Das
Programme Coordinator
Sarai, CSDS
Email me at: mitoo at sarai.net

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