COOKING IN DIASPORA: A Four Week Workshop with Genevieve Villamora

ABOUT THE CLASS The American table has been infinitely enriched by communities who have brought their cuisines to this country from somewhere else. This workshop will examine what happens to a cuisine when it travels and is cooked outside of its original cultural context. We’ll also reflect on what happens to the people who find themselves in a new place, trying to hold onto their heritage cuisine as they build a life outside of the historical, political and environmental factors that shaped it. With the concept of diaspora as our main framework, this class will use cookbooks, articles, essays and workshop participants’ own lived experience to look at the following themes: Week 1: The Taste of Home Week 2: “Authenticity” Week 3: Memory Week 4: Transformation First and foremost, this is a workshop for everyone who likes to read, think, and learn about food. It’s also for people who like to cook.If you connect to your culture when you eat your heritage food;If you didn’t grow up eating y