Sustenance for the Body & Soul Food & Drink in Amerindian, Spanish and Latin American Worlds

by Andrist, Debra D

• ISBN13: 9781789761306
• ISBN10: 1789761301
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2021-10-27
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Summary

The food-secure and/or privileged worldwide no longer eat and drink simply to maintain life itself. They have the advantage and choice to regard sustenancenot just as fuel for the body/machine but as a source of pleasure and entertainment for the mind/intellect. This enhanced concept of sustenanceembraces all the senses: visual, auditory, olfactory, gustatory and tactile, thus including not just food & drink but ceremonies & art forms dealing with them. This book explores the substantive ways food & drink impact human existence. The work comprises five parts: medicine; ceremonies; literature & cinema; art & artists; space/architecture & advertising/art. Food & drink start with the physical, morph into nutrition, the most basic requirements for organic life, but progress from the beginning of physical process to ceremony and expression. The result and the experience highlight physiological and sensual concepts, and indeed, preference. Food & drink
staples are determine

Author Biography

The Editor, Dr. Debra D. Andrist, retired Professor of Spanish/formerly founding Chair of Foreign Languages (at Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX, was formerly Chair/Cullen Professor at University of St. Thomas/Houston and formerly Associate Professor at Baylor University, Waco, TX . Her scholarly work focuses on art and literature by and about women and medical topics.

Table of Contents

Contents
Preface                                           
Acknowledgments                             
Indigenous & Hispanic Worlds                        
Part I Sustenance & Socio-Political Spaces: Intents & Agendas
A. (Proto) Political Unintended Cultural Influences
1    A (Culinary) Counter-Conquest: Imports from the Americas that Conquered European Cuisine  Debra D. Andrist
B. Teaching & Influencing the Student(s) as an Agenda:     Formal Education
2    Food Culture in Higher-Education Spanish Courses:
    Political Allegory in Lazarillo de Tormes
    Elizabeth Coscio
3   Vitamin F: First Wave Feminist-Fueled Home Economics: A Dialogue of Trends in North America and Spain
    Michelle Sharp
C. Teaching & Influencing the Family as an Agenda: Socialization & National Politics
4  Family Responsibilities: A Recipe for the Modern Spanish Nation: Carmen de Burgos’ and Emilia Pardo Bazán’s Cookbook Discourses
    Michelle Sharp
D. Teaching & Influencing the Public as an Agenda: Commercial Advertising
5    Linking & Selling Sustenance & Space: Wine Labels in Spain
    Kimberly Habegger
Part II Sustenance & Physical Space
A. Museums: Drink & Architecture
6    Spain’s Wine Museums: Where Age-Old Oenological
    Tradition Intersects with Contemporary Design & Modern Technology
    Kimberly Habegger
B. The Kitchen & Dining Room: Food & Drink
     Preparation & Presentation
7    The Kitchen & Dining Room: Cooking & Consuming
    Who, What, How in the Preparation & Presentation of Food & Drink
    Debra D. Andrist
Part III Sustenance for the Body & Soul: Applications & Interpretations
A. Applications for Medicine & Healing
8    The Body Cured by Plants
    Jeanne Gillespie
9    Healing Remedies and Patron Divinities: The Songs of Pulque
    Jeanne Gillespie
10    Como agua para chocolate: Like Food for Emotion,
    Like Illness/Injury for Transition/Transformation
    Debra D. Andrist
B. Interpretations for Ceremony & Religion
11    Eucharistic Bread & Wine: A Concrete Sacramentality That Liberates
    John Francis Burke
Part IV Sustenance & the Soul: Representation via the Visual Arts
A. Visual: Studio & Cinema
12    What’s Cooking with Picasso: Conjuring Up Food in the First Year of Occupation
    Enrique Mallén
13    The Devouring Eye (I) of Picasso
    Enrique Mallén
14    Sustenance for the Soul & Spirit: Frida & Fruit
    Debra D. Andrist
15    Family, Food & Fighting: A Comparative Study of the
    Mexican Film, Como agua para chocolate and the
    Chinese Film, Eat Drink Man Woman
    Haiqing Sun
Part V Sustenance & the Soul: Representation via the Literary Arts
A. Writers & Writing, Fiction & Essay
16    Food Vocabulary & References as Linguistic, Familial
    & Cultural Links: Memory, Identity & Comfort:
    The Short Stories & an Essay by Rose Mary Salum
    Debra D. Andrist
17    Filminas: An Essay
    Rose Mary Salum
18    Real Recipes and Willed Eroticism in Isabel Allende’s
    Afrodita
    Stephen Miller
19    Cultural & Culinary Symbiosis: The Art of Describing
    Cuban Identity in Paradiso by José Lezama Lima
    Jorge Chavarro
20    Metamorphosis and Food: Adela Fernández and Leonora
    Carrington’s Short Stories, A Comparative Reading
    Eduardo Cerdán
Conclusions and Reflections
The Editor & Contributors
Index