Cheat sheet for the final exam
"What I Want From an Essay" handout
To be honest, this is an old one I had kicking around, for one of my other courses no less, but it should all still apply. As it covers interview and ethnography, it is less so for the first assignment but more so for the second assignment. But the basics (have a point, have an organising principle, spellcheck it) all apply.
Course Syllabus
Online articles
These are best accessed from on campus. Download the pdf and save them to a jump drive or something.
Adler, Thomas A. 1981. Making Pancakes on Sunday: The Male Cook in Family Tradition. Western Folklore 40.1: 45-54. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1499848
Lloyd, Timothy Charles . 1981. The Cincinnati Chili Culinary Complex. Western Folklore 40.1: 28-40. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1499846
Newton, Sarah E. 1992. “The Jell-O Syndrome”: Investigating Popular Culture/Foodways. Western Folklore 51.3-4: 249-267. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1499775
Course notes - PDFs of the PowerPoints
(As ever, not a substitute for coming to class)
Aperitif: What is ‘Foodways’?
- January 6 – Introduction
- January 11 – Some Basic Concepts
- January 13 – Some Basic Terminology | Assignment Discussion
Main Course: Lucy Long’s Culinary Tourism
- January 18 – Long, “Introduction”
- January 20 – Long, “Culinary Tourism: A Folkloristic Perspective” (link fixed)
- January 25 – Molz, “Tasting an Imagined Thailand”
- January 27 – (Storm Day)
- February 1 – Pilcher, “From 'Montezuma's Revenge' to 'Mexican Truffles'” (postponed from January 27)
- February 8 – McAndrews, “Incorporating the Local Tourist at the Big Island Poke Festival” (moved from February 1) and Rotkovitz, “Kashering the Melting Pot”
- Due to snow days, Rudy's “'Of Course, in Guatemala, Bananas are Better'” will not be on the exam, as it was not covered in class, but it is still recommended)
- February 10 – Bentley, “From Culinary Other to Mainstream America”
- February 15 – Wilson, “Pass the Tofu, Please”
- February 17 – Midterm (link to the Cheat sheet)
Seconds: Some More Foodways Research
- March 1 – Midterm debrief and Film: Carolina Hash (I am switching the two films from the syllabus, as it will flow better now).
| Research Assignment due
- Remember: as voted on by the class, these two have been switched
- March 3 – Adler, “Making Pancakes on Sunday”
- March 8 – Lloyd, “The Cincinnati Chili Culinary Complex”
- March 10 – Newton, “The Jell-O Syndrome”
Dessert: Diane Tye’s Baking As Biography
- March 15 – “A Life in Recipes”
- March 17 – “Feeding Our Family Well”
- March 22 – “Church Lunches and Ladies' Teas”
- March 24 – “Baking for a Third Place”
- March 29 – “Tasting the Past”
The Bill
- March 31 – Fieldwork assignment due | Film: Hamburger and Dolma
- April 5 – Exam Review, Evaluations