tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1569744605620721949.post9053816796297451833..comments2023-11-03T00:27:59.937-07:00Comments on History at the Table: Linda Norris: Moving beyond the butter churnUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1569744605620721949.post-91474527738005112952015-04-01T07:35:42.854-07:002015-04-01T07:35:42.854-07:00I really like this post. It's so inspiring. I ...I really like this post. It's so inspiring. I do conversation in ukrainian skype at http://preply.com/en/ukrainian-by-skype but read this on my break and I can't help but realize a lot of things. thanks a lot for thisAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05565264786646251781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1569744605620721949.post-26746545080363140852013-04-11T17:48:10.650-07:002013-04-11T17:48:10.650-07:00My thoughts really echo Michelle's here. I wr...My thoughts really echo Michelle's here. I wrote something similar on <a href="http://historyatthetable.blogspot.com/2013/03/diana-lempel-taste-smell-imagination.html" rel="nofollow">Diana's post</a>, wondering how we deal with the submerged, denied, unrecognized, or pushed-away realities of actual hunger when we're dealing with interpreting and talking historically about food. These acts of interpreting and discussing, by definition, take place on the "safe" side of hunger, in the same way that touring battlefields takes place on the safe side of war and learning about the Industrial Revolution at industrial history sites is only safe and interesting for people who don't actually have to make their living working on an assembly line. <br /><br />So how do we touch on the subject of actual hunger when we're interpreting food? (This clearly also relates to <a href="http://historyatthetable.blogspot.com/2013/04/tyler-french-attending-to-other-tables.html" rel="nofollow">Tyler's post</a> about connecting to issues of contemporary food insecurity.) And how do we get people to realize the seriousness of thinking about food <i>without</i> getting them to think seriously about hunger? How to balance the feel-good aspects of food interpretation with that seriousness? CATHY STANTONhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11471830785628905120noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1569744605620721949.post-75565870529340113022013-03-23T11:09:38.944-07:002013-03-23T11:09:38.944-07:00What a simultaneously moving, succinct, and provoc...What a simultaneously moving, succinct, and provocative post, Linda!<br /><br />Your discussion of the Stalin-enforced famine caused me to reflect a moment on the issue of trauma - personal, cultural, political - as it relates to food systems and values. One of the conversations I brought to my work on interpretation at Strawbery Banke was to encourage reflection on the conditions in the US that preceded the "green revolution" of the 60s, which we now perceive to be a complex and often negative legacy. The privations of the various depressions in the late 19th century, the shortages and hoarding of commodities in World War I, the widespread hunger of the Great Depression, and the forced rationing and home food production of World War II were all factors contributing to to the desire to do whatever was necessary to ensure a steady, homogenous, and abundanct supply of food. <br /><br />So it's interesting to consider how the notion of home production in the Ukraine my be in part a reaction to traumas and threats, as well. Integrated Systemshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12326071120855371015noreply@blogger.com