Canada: A Taste of Home/Les saveurs de chez soi

Oriana Palusci, Ylenia De Luca

• Publisher: Guernica World Editions
• Year: 2023
• eBook ISBN: 9781771838269
• Subtopic: Essays in Sociology

Canada: A Taste of Home/ Les saveurs de chez soi is a collection of papers, written either in French or in English, that investigate the different cuisines of immigrants in a literary, linguistic and cultural perspective. Far from home, food expresses a sense of nostalgia, belonging and identity, as the authors suggest in dealing with the many implications and attitudes to food. On a literary and cultural table sumptuously prepared with recipes dearly carried from native homes near and far, full of strange ingredients, tastes, smells, colours, cultural practices, habits, plurilinguistic Canada celebrates the triumph of a migrant country, whose life is rooted in the rich soil of far off cooking traditions and memories. Indeed, Canada is a culinary laboratory in which gastronomies showcase and confirm the ethnic diversity of its multicultural peoples.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title page
• Copyright
• Oriana Palusci Introduction: A Taste of Home in Multiethnic Canada
• Nathalie Cooke Reflecting on Home and Away—over a Canadian Literary Meal
• Marco Modenesi “Un rigatoni jumbo spécial à la pepperoni mambo, ou quelque chose comme ça”. La dimension gastronomique dans Le Matou d’Yves Beauchemin
• Alessandra Ferraro Repas de famille dans Impala de Carole David ou la déconstruction du stéréotype maternel
• Éva Zsizsmann Bits and Pieces of Home. Food Imagery as False Memory
• Carmen Concilio Fasting in Abundance in Canadian Literature
• Angela Buono Pas et repas : parcours littéraires de la nourriture entre stéréotypes et appartenance identitaire
• Valeria Zotti La cuisine du terroir dans la littérature québécoise traduite en Italie : les limites des corpus parallèles
• Licia Canton A Taste of Home: Growing Up Italian in Montreal-North
• Eva Gruber Eating, Speaking, Belonging: Food and/as Communication in Canadian Immigrant Fiction
• Ylenia De Luca L’alimentation en situation de minorité. L’apport des immigrants à la diversification de l’espace social alimentaire de Montréal
• Silvia Domenica Zollo Représentations métalinguistiques profanes autour du lexique culinaire québécois
• Roberta La Peruta Selling a taste of Italy on TripAdvisor: Italian Culinary Terms in Toronto’s Little Italy Menus
• Daniela Fargione “vulture capital hovers over our dinner tables”: Larissa Lai, Rita Wong and Ecological Transcultural Alliances
• Simona Stano Eating almost the Same Thing: Japanese Cuisine in Canada
• Julia Siepak Recuperating Tastes of Home: Indigenous Food Sovereignty in First Nations Women’s Writing
• Kamelia Talebian Sedehi The Lack of Food and Trauma in Basil H. Johnston’s Indian School Days
• Anna Mongibello Moosemeat & Marmalade: Analyzing Mediatized Indigenous Food Cultures on TV
• Esterino Adami A Taste of Diaspora: Linguistic and Cultural Representations of Parsi Food Discourse in Canada
• Rita Calabrese In a Mississauga Indian Kitchen
• Marina Zito Pâté chinois, tourtières et autres délices de la cuisine québécoise
• Mirko Casagranda “Poutine is not Canadian”: Food and National Identity in Canada
• René Georges Maury Un goût du vin affirmé au Canada—fortes croissances de la consommation vinicole et de la production viticole
• Notes on Contributors