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Lecture: "Domestic Workers and the Shaping of American Foodways"
Join us for the Women's Faculty Council Research Week Lecture taking place on February 21, 3:00 pm, Peggy V. Helmerich Browsing Room, Edmon Low Library – Dr. Rebecca Sharpless, from TCU, will be delivering a talk on her research for the 2010 book, Cooking in Other Women's Kitchens: Domestic Workers in the South, 1865-1960. A reception and book signing will follow the talk.
Dr. Sharpless's lecture will address the intersections between food, work, and identity in the lives of a particular group of African American women. Southern cooking is a fusion cuisine, blended from numerous elements, and after the Civil War, African American cooks took the foodways of their African and slave ancestors and blended them with the preferences of their employers to create a distinctive regional cuisine. Food also shaped the daily routines of hundreds of thousands of these women, as it became a vehicle for earning a living. This talk will focus on food as both a product and a process in southern kitchens.
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