Insatiable City: Food and Race in New Orleans by McCulla, Theresa
Insatiable City: Food and Race in New Orleans by McCulla, Theresa

Insatiable City: Food and Race in New Orleans

A history of food in the Crescent City that explores race, power, social status, and labor. In...
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Author: Theresa McCulla
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Insatiable City: Food and Race in New Orleans by McCulla, Theresa

Insatiable City: Food and Race in New Orleans

$109.16
Insatiable City: Food and Race in New Orleans by McCulla, Theresa

Insatiable City: Food and Race in New Orleans

$109.16
Author: Theresa McCulla
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
A history of food in the Crescent City that explores race, power, social status, and labor.

In Insatiable City, Theresa McCulla probes the overt and covert ways that the production of food and the discourse about it both created and reinforced many strains of inequality in New Orleans, a city significantly defined by its foodways. Tracking the city's economy from nineteenth-century chattel slavery to twentieth-century tourism, McCulla uses menus, cookbooks, newspapers, postcards, photography, and other material culture to limn the interplay among the production and reception of food, the inscription and reiteration of racial hierarchies, and the constant diminishment and exploitation of working-class people. The consumption of food and people, she shows, was mutually reinforced and deeply intertwined. Yet she also details how enslaved and free people of color in New Orleans used food and drink to carve paths of mobility, stability, autonomy, freedom, profit, and joy. A story of pain and pleasure, labor and leisure, Insatiable City goes far beyond the task of tracing New Orleans's culinary history to focus on how food suffuses culture and our understandings and constructions of race and power.

Author: Theresa McCulla
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 05/10/2024
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
ISBN: 9780226833828


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 03/18/2024

About the Author
Theresa McCulla is a curator and historian, and the former curator of the American Brewing History Initiative at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History.
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