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India Mandelkern
I am a cultural historian and writer based in Los Angeles, California. I completed my Ph.D. in History at the University of California, Berkeley, in 2015. My dissertation, "The Politics of the Palate: Taste and Knowledge in Early Modern England" explored the medical, philosophical, and cultural significance of the human palate spanning classical antiquity through the Enlightenment. Combining history, literature, and cultural anthropology, my dissertation showed how the sense of taste palate evolved from a dietetic tool used to mediate one’s relationship with nature into a physical marker of cultural refinement.
I am currently working on a project about chain restaurants and consumer culture.
Supervisors: Thomas Laqueur
I am currently working on a project about chain restaurants and consumer culture.
Supervisors: Thomas Laqueur
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By highlighting over 150 objects from around the world, ranging from cookware, tableware, and kitchen textiles to books, manuscripts, paintings and drawings, this exhibition examines Jewish food rituals as meaningful frameworks with which to contextualize today’s food movement, a phenomenon that is deeply embedded in Berkeley’s history, a city with its own “gourmet ghetto” and powerful tradition of social justice.
http://bit.ly/gourmetghettos
By highlighting over 150 objects from around the world, ranging from cookware, tableware, and kitchen textiles to books, manuscripts, paintings and drawings, this exhibition examines Jewish food rituals as meaningful frameworks with which to contextualize today’s food movement, a phenomenon that is deeply embedded in Berkeley’s history, a city with its own “gourmet ghetto” and powerful tradition of social justice.
http://bit.ly/gourmetghettos