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Setting the Scene: a Response to John Rogerson

KEITH W. WHITELAM

in Understanding the History of Ancient Israel

John Rogerson's review of works on the history of ancient Israel from Humphrey Prideaux to Martin Noth is a fine illustration of Ecclesiastes' observation (1.9): ‘What has been is what will be, and ... More

John Rogerson's review of works on the history of ancient Israel from Humphrey Prideaux to Martin Noth is a fine illustration of Ecclesiastes' observation (1.9): ‘What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done; and there is nothing new under the sun’. The current debates on the history of Israel are often presented as part of some paradigm shift or, at the very least, a new and savage phase in the study of Israelite history. The publication of recent works such as A Biblical History of Israel by Provan et al. and Kenneth Kitchen's On the Reliability of the Old Testament take us back to the starting point of Rogerson's paper and the work of Prideaux before the development of biblical studies as a critical discipline in the nineteenth century. Norman Cantor's observations on the invention of the Middle Ages by twentieth-century scholarship are just as applicable to biblical scholarship and its pursuit of ancient Israel.Less

A Window into the Crisis: Three Nuns and a Soup Kitchen

Ananda Rose

in Showdown in the Sonoran Desert: Religion, Law, and the Immigration Controversy

This chapter highlights three Mexican Sisters of the Eucharist who run a soup kitchen for deported migrants in Nogales, Mexico. The soup kitchen, part of a larger initiative of the Jesuit Refugee ... More

This chapter highlights three Mexican Sisters of the Eucharist who run a soup kitchen for deported migrants in Nogales, Mexico. The soup kitchen, part of a larger initiative of the Jesuit Refugee Service, was opened in 2008 due to the unprecedented number of deportees, which was the result of heightened U.S. border enforcement measures. The work of the Sisters, who tirelessly tend to hundreds of wounded and hungry migrants daily, serves as a window into the crisis of migrant suffering at the U.S.–Mexico border, as well as an example of how the biblical tradition of radical hospitality is being played out by religious groups and individuals there.Less

Of Stars, Soldiers, Mothers, and Mourning

William Brooks

in Over Here, Over There: Transatlantic Conversations on the Music of World War I

Symbols like the service flag furthered community morale in the United States during World War I and evolved to engender memorial organizations like Gold Star Mothers. Music supported both, with ... More

Symbols like the service flag furthered community morale in the United States during World War I and evolved to engender memorial organizations like Gold Star Mothers. Music supported both, with three components of the industry—Tin Pan Alley, Kitchen Table publishing, and Song Sharks—differing in key respects: the participation of women composers and lyricists, the focus on mothers and loss, and the mix of ballads, waltz songs, and marches. As the war evolved, so did the responses, with the closing months and aftermath focusing increasingly on soldiers’ fatalities and the expression of grief and mourning. Postwar changes in style and dissemination marked the end of such collective expressions.Less

Socialist Supermarkets and “Peaceful Competition”

Shane Hamilton

in Supermarket USA: Food and Power in the Cold War Farms Race

This chapter focuses on Eastern Europe, highlighting the ways in which the communist contestants in the Farms Race pursued noncapitalist goals in the economic battles of the Cold War. Supermarket ... More

This chapter focuses on Eastern Europe, highlighting the ways in which the communist contestants in the Farms Race pursued noncapitalist goals in the economic battles of the Cold War. Supermarket USA—a project jointly pursued by the U.S. Department of Commerce and a private supermarket trade group in 1957—was the first full-scale American-style supermarket to be erected in a communist country. U.S. propagandists touted the Supermarket USA exhibit at Zagreb’s 1957 trade fair as proof of the power of capitalist agriculture and efficient food distribution. Yugoslavian communist leaders, however, recognized the potential for deploying supermarkets in their campaign to convince restive rural peasants to accept socialist approaches to food production. The Yugoslavian adaptation of American supermarkets contrasts with the Soviet Union’s efforts, under the leadership of the rhetorically gifted Nikita Khrushchev, to defy American proclamations of capitalism’s superiority as a mode for spurring agricultural productivity and consumer abundance. In particular, the chapter highlights the ways in which the famous 1959 Kitchen Debate between Khrushchev and U.S. vice president Richard Nixon should be understood as a debate not just about kitchens or consumerism but about the structure of the agricultural systems that fed into both capitalist and communist kitchens.Less

Washing Dishes

Ariel Glucklich

in Everyday Mysticism: A Contemplative Community at Work in the Desert

In this chapter the author describes in detail the work that takes place in the dining hall and kitchen, which are the central gathering places for members of the community.

Learn More Zulu

Mark Sanders

in Learning Zulu: A Secret History of Language in South Africa

This chapter examines the ways that white appropriation gave Zulu its power and value relative to other African signifiers. It first provides an overview of the legacy of John William Colenso, who, ... More

This chapter examines the ways that white appropriation gave Zulu its power and value relative to other African signifiers. It first provides an overview of the legacy of John William Colenso, who, as Church of England Bishop of Natal from 1855 until his death in 1883, made it his business to refine, correct, and amplify existing grammars and dictionaries in Zulu. It then considers the distinction between Zulu and Kitchen Kafr—or Fanagalo, as it was called later. It also reflects on what stands in the way of learning Zulu and how Fanagalo becomes a substitute not only for Zulu, but also for other African languages. The author concludes by charting his history of attempts at learning Zulu in South Africa by citing Sibusiso Nyembezi's 1970 language manual, Learn More Zulu.Less

A New Civic Motherhood?: The Evolution of Conservative Women’s Political Rhetoric

Melissa Deckman

in Tea Party Women: Mama Grizzlies, Grassroots Leaders, and the Changing Face of the American Right

This chapter identifies motherhood frames used by Tea Party women to explain their political activism and to inspire other conservative women and places Tea Party women in historical context.

Commitment to Emotional Intelligence

Sandra L. Bloom and Brian Farragher

in Restoring Sanctuary: A New Operating System for Trauma-Informed Systems of Care

This chapter first offers a vision of what emotionally intelligent organizations look like, and then uses Sanctuary in the Kitchen to show that improving emotional intelligence is not just an ... More

This chapter first offers a vision of what emotionally intelligent organizations look like, and then uses Sanctuary in the Kitchen to show that improving emotional intelligence is not just an academic concern read about in books. Instead, the Commitment to Emotional Intelligence can be, and should be, practiced anywhere and everywhere. The chapter focuses on the elements of emotional intelligence that are vital to understanding and practicing the Sanctuary Model: emotional labor, managing conflict, and the implications of this commitment for trauma-informed care and for leadership. It concludes with examples of the Sanctuary Toolkit that are especially relevant to the Commitment to Emotional Intelligence.Less

Sticks and Scones: The Homecraft Movement in Colonial Zimbabwe

Carolyn Martin Shaw

in Women and Power in Zimbabwe: Promises of Feminism

This chapter examines the Homecraft movement in colonial Zimbabwe and the ways it encouraged women to move beyond the confines of their homes, to join in common cause with non-kin, and to name their ... More

This chapter examines the Homecraft movement in colonial Zimbabwe and the ways it encouraged women to move beyond the confines of their homes, to join in common cause with non-kin, and to name their desires. Colonial white women who were members of the Federation of Women's Institutes of Southern Rhodesia (FWI) turned to political activism with the founding of Homecraft Clubs for black women. The FWI's systematization of knowledge about home economics was concomitant with the white women's heightened sense of Rhodesian nationalism. As white women taught domesticity and community service to black women, the latter began to assert themselves in the public sphere. The chapter also considers how events such as Kitchen Teas mobilize women's cultural knowledge about who should participate with whom on which occasions in order to bring women together for a celebratory event in honor of a bride. The chapter concludes by describing the decline of Homecraft and suggests that the movement was rife with cruel optimism.Less

Economy and Pathology in Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger and Monica Ali’s In the Kitchen

Sarah Brouillette

in Literature and the Creative Economy

This chapter discusses the success of narratives that focus on a protagonist's therapeutic trajectory from suffering self to successful entrepreneur, and suggests that writers have themselves been ... More

This chapter discusses the success of narratives that focus on a protagonist's therapeutic trajectory from suffering self to successful entrepreneur, and suggests that writers have themselves been crucial models of this therapeutic biography. It begins by discussing Aravind Agida's 2008 novel The White Tiger as a critique of the neoliberal rhetoric of entrepreneurial innovation. The novel suggests that this rhetoric downplays dependence on an expanding service class, and requires its protagonist's anti-social conception of the flexible self as an engine of capital accumulation. The chapter compares Adiga's work to Monica Ali's 2009 novel In the Kitchen, homing in on its depiction of the breakdown of Gabriel, an aspiring restaurant owner who embodies many of the features of the creative worker imagined by New Labour policy.Less

In the Kitchen with Grandma

Jennifer Rachel Dutch

in Look Who's Cooking: The Rhetoric of American Home Cooking Traditions in the Twenty-First Century

While critics mourn the death of home cooking based on the rapid changes in cooking practices and kitchen technologies in the twentieth and twenty-first century, a counter-narrative based on the ... More

While critics mourn the death of home cooking based on the rapid changes in cooking practices and kitchen technologies in the twentieth and twenty-first century, a counter-narrative based on the adaptability and innovation of actual home cooking traditions offers hope for continued significance of American home cooking today and in the future.Less

In the Kitchen with … Dad?: Continuity and Change in Twenty-First-Century Home Cooking

Jennifer Rachel Dutch

in Look Who's Cooking: The Rhetoric of American Home Cooking Traditions in the Twenty-First Century

Despite the rhetoric lamenting the demise of home cooking in the twenty-first century, today’s home cooks infuse the kitchen with meanings that destabilize the critic’s efforts to control the form ... More

Despite the rhetoric lamenting the demise of home cooking in the twenty-first century, today’s home cooks infuse the kitchen with meanings that destabilize the critic’s efforts to control the form and direction of home cooking discourse and practice in the twenty-first century. Today, home cooking remains meaningful because of the home cooks who create its meaning.Less

Talking to Strangers

Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva

in Reality Radio, Second Edition: Telling True Stories in Sound

Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva, better known as the Kitchen Sisters, tend to find their subjects in the everyday. They sit for hours, “practically in the interviewee’s lap,” listening intently for ... More

Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva, better known as the Kitchen Sisters, tend to find their subjects in the everyday. They sit for hours, “practically in the interviewee’s lap,” listening intently for those moments when speech sparkles with life. They haunt hidden kitchens and Tupperware parties, or gather lost and found sound, then create tapestries of voice, sound, and music. Nikki and Davia write of radio’s power to foster human connection. Provocatively, they describe their relationships with their subjects as “a sort of ventriloquism—we speak through other people and other people speak through us.”Less

DeSalvo’s Rialto: On Moving as A Livable Bridge

Ilaria Serra

in Personal Effects: Essays on Memoir, Teaching, and Culture in the Work of Louise DeSalvo

Ilaria Serra addresses displacement and mobility as key components of contemporary migrant identity that DeSalvo, as the descendant of southern Italian immigrants, embodies in multiple and layered ... More

Ilaria Serra addresses displacement and mobility as key components of contemporary migrant identity that DeSalvo, as the descendant of southern Italian immigrants, embodies in multiple and layered ways. Serra uses the livable bridge, which she borrows from Italian architecture, as a metaphor through which to read On Moving in juxtaposition to the earlier Crazy in the Kitchen, highlighting the ways in which DeSalvo treats the text as an architectural space.Less

The Knife and the Bread, the Brutal and the Sacred: Louise DeSalvo at the Family Table

John Gennari

in Personal Effects: Essays on Memoir, Teaching, and Culture in the Work of Louise DeSalvo

John Gennari’s manifesto forges new ways to look at Italian food both within and without Italian American culture. Gennari probes DeSalvo’s effort to construct a familial narrative that is at once ... More

John Gennari’s manifesto forges new ways to look at Italian food both within and without Italian American culture. Gennari probes DeSalvo’s effort to construct a familial narrative that is at once traumatic and redemptive, an effort that pivots on her hunger for a usable gastronomic past.Less

The Benteng

John K. Stutterheim

in The Diary of Prisoner 17326: A Boy's Life in a Japanese Labor Camp

Chapter 11 opens with an account of the women working in the kitchens. Their daily routine consisted of rising extremely early to prepare the meagre food on which the prisoners subsided and the ... More

Chapter 11 opens with an account of the women working in the kitchens. Their daily routine consisted of rising extremely early to prepare the meagre food on which the prisoners subsided and the cleanup of the cooking equipment that followed. The author follows this account with one of his own in which he incurred the anger of a Japanese officer, who beat him with a dog whip and attempted to humiliate him on a regular basis. The chapter closes with the separation of the men from the women in the camp and their relocation to a separate facility and the heartbreak the author's mother suffered on account of this.Less

Transitions in kitchen living: past experiences and present use

Sheila Peace, Martin Maguire, Colette Nicolle, Russ Marshall, John Percival, Rachel Scicluna, Ruth Sims, Leonie Kellaher, and Clare Lawton

in The New Dynamics of Ageing Volume 1

This chapter discusses the domestic kitchen in the lives of older people whose ages range across four decades and who were born between 1919 and 1948. They were living in various types of housing ... More

This chapter discusses the domestic kitchen in the lives of older people whose ages range across four decades and who were born between 1919 and 1948. They were living in various types of housing from detached to terraced; from maisonette to flat; from mainstream to supportive. By looking at past experiences of the kitchen across the life course gendered and generational differences are seen that contribute to kitchen living in the 21st century. Examining use of the most recent kitchen shows how biopsychosocial factors come together with design and on-going adaptation being both enabling and disabling. The kitchen is seen as a mainstay of the home environment and in later life central to maintaining personal autonomyLess

Tables and Conflict

Janet A. Flammang

in Table Talk: Building Democracy One Meal at a Time

This chapter focuses on difficult conversations as a source of conflict at the dinner table, at schools with at-risk youth, among same-sex marriage proponents talking to opponents, at Death Cafes ... More

This chapter focuses on difficult conversations as a source of conflict at the dinner table, at schools with at-risk youth, among same-sex marriage proponents talking to opponents, at Death Cafes (groups that meet socially to discuss the meaning of death), and at dispute mediation sessions. It examines how cultural and ethnic differences can give rise to table conflicts, such as cultural conflicts that emerge from the different food traditions of immigrant groups. It also considers various attempts to use table talk to address stereotypes among Christians, Jews, and Muslims; to educate Americans about Afghanis; and to bridge differences in views about homosexuality. Two high-conflict examples are discussed: civil right advocates who cooked for racial equality and Pittsburgh's Conflict Kitchen. The chapter shows that difficult conversations are always about facts, emotions, and identity.Less

Analytical Spaces: The Installations of Péter Forgács

László F. Földényi

in Cinema's Alchemist: The Films of Péter Forgács

This chapter examines the installations of Péter Forgács. The installations of Forgács are life spaces. The space is distributed with precision: the object creates a logical, as well as emotional, ... More

This chapter examines the installations of Péter Forgács. The installations of Forgács are life spaces. The space is distributed with precision: the object creates a logical, as well as emotional, web. In Hungarian Kitchen Video Art, the process of demonstration creates a new space that becomes natural by way of unnaturalness. Forgács uses a corner in which to install his “kitchen art,” an ironic reference to the use of corners to display religious icons in Russian culture. The installations of Forgács are analytical in the literal meaning of the word. In The Case of My Room, for example, the installation divides one singe space into two rooms reminiscent of the two halves of the brain.Less

Home, Cooking: Why Gender Matters to Food Politics

Tracey Deutsch

in Food Fights: How History Matters to Contemporary Food Debates

History looms large in much recent writing about food, with a particular nostalgia for home cooking. But much of this wistfulness for traditional food carefully prepared at home replicates ... More

History looms large in much recent writing about food, with a particular nostalgia for home cooking. But much of this wistfulness for traditional food carefully prepared at home replicates long-standing efforts to rein in women, argues Tracey Deutsch. Because women still do much of the cooking in American homes, any history of home cooking has to acknowledge the inequalities of work in the home. Deutsch encourages us to look at kitchens and home cooking through the lens of women’s history to see them as places of joy and power, authority and possibility, tradition and resistance.Less