This has been the best year of my life. Since I obviously cannot maintain a travel blog the way I would like, I propose a 12 day project to make up for my lack of dedication.
In browsing my photo library, I can safely say that I have more pictures of food than anything. Duh. Perhaps it is my current engagement with food porn (theoretically and practically) that is driving me to want to capture what I am writing about. Right now and for my master's thesis next semester, I am studying the phenomenon of food as a language in which we, as a perpetually-connected, individually-hobbied and food media-obsessed culture communicate identities and social status. Using the consumption theories of Bourdieu and Veblen (who saw food preferences as social status symbols) and the current literature on the 'pornification' of society, my idea is to examine pictures on foodie's blogs (including their 'food porn') as visual artifacts of a culture obsessed with food who use frames of authenticity and exoticism to negotiate and promote their their identities.
At any rate, since I failed to keep my blog consistent, maybe this 12-day project of my year in food will serve to sum it all up. What will follow are 12 posts of traveling (intermittently betwixt grad school classes, paper-writing & learning German), of 12 months of me eating cultural diversity of Europe (and a bit beyond), tasting parts of the world with fresh taste buds, inhaling different beverages and enjoying my senses...
mmmm, ok, here we go.
mmmm, ok, here we go.
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