20 min

The Tastes of Identity History Hater turned History Major

    • History

This tour/podcast is for anyone looking to learn more about the relationship between food and identity, as well as how food can be used as a lens for understanding history.

This walking tour is about engaging your senses. Scents most strongly trigger our memory. We use touch for hands-on learning. Sound brings us into the here and now, engaging us in the present moment. Sight is how we observe and describe. But this tour focuses on taste, the tastes of identity.

Using food as a means to understand history and identity, we’ll dive into the narratives of four cultures found on Brick Lane: the British, the Indian, the Jewish, and the Bangladeshi. Tea tells a story of colonization, sugar of dehumanization, curry of migration, and bagels of immigration. All together, they tell a story of translocations, glocalization, and our search for authenticity.



For a more active engagement, use the instagram page to follow along and see photos of the sites/topics being discussed. In the profile, there is also a link to a video format of the tour: https://www.instagram.com/tastesofidentity/

This tour/podcast is for anyone looking to learn more about the relationship between food and identity, as well as how food can be used as a lens for understanding history.

This walking tour is about engaging your senses. Scents most strongly trigger our memory. We use touch for hands-on learning. Sound brings us into the here and now, engaging us in the present moment. Sight is how we observe and describe. But this tour focuses on taste, the tastes of identity.

Using food as a means to understand history and identity, we’ll dive into the narratives of four cultures found on Brick Lane: the British, the Indian, the Jewish, and the Bangladeshi. Tea tells a story of colonization, sugar of dehumanization, curry of migration, and bagels of immigration. All together, they tell a story of translocations, glocalization, and our search for authenticity.



For a more active engagement, use the instagram page to follow along and see photos of the sites/topics being discussed. In the profile, there is also a link to a video format of the tour: https://www.instagram.com/tastesofidentity/

20 min

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