Against heritage : the reinvention of traditional foods / Lily Kelting

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kelting, Lily, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food habits--Southern States.

Food habits.

Food habits--Scandinavia.

Food habits--India.

Food habits--Social aspects.

Food in popular culture--Political aspects.

Food in popular culture.

Local foods.

Slow food movement.

India.

Scandinavia.

Southern States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustration

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2026

Summary:

"The rise of “heritage” foods—that is, the reinvention of traditional foods—has enjoyed a high profile thanks to the oft-praised efforts of chefs such as Sean Brock and René Redzepi. But Lily Kelting observes the popularity of heritage foods as something more: a global movement in response to climate catastrophe and the rise of right-wing, populist movements that center a return to the past as part of their ideology. Weaving ethnography, discourse analysis, critical theory, and sensory, embodied critique, Kelting tracks and critiques the boom of traditional food revival movements in the American South, Denmark, and India. Ultimately, Kelting argues that the heritage culinary professionals wish to revive is equal parts nostalgia and invention: They engage, subvert, and ignore food histories in their creation of new food movements. As Kelting documents our contemporary moment, she shows how the conversations surrounding these new food movements leave out people already keeping their traditions alive. Against Heritage, then, serves as a reparative revaluation of the work of the cooks largely excluded from the contemporary media conversation about heritage revival"-- JSTOR

Contents:

Introduction : It’s about time

Southern heritage and transatlantic history

Prospective memory, the archive, the time capsule, and the food court

The new Nordic globalization of the local

Against primitivism : Re-indigenizing the new Nordic cuisine

Ancient grains in modern India

Against culinary technofuturism

Conclusion : Better practices

Conclusion II : An against heritage toolkit

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed May 27, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version: Kelting, Lily Against heritage

ISBN:

9781469694573

1469694573

9781469694566

1469694565

OCLC:

1582438796

Publisher Number:

CIPO000360519

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license