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I am going to create either an application or website that connects the public with Latino cuisine. The app or site will have a GPS section that shows the user where Latino restaurants are within their vicinity. The user will also be able to leave a review and comets on the restaurants. There will also be a recipe section where people can pick out different recipes from different Latino countries. I am going to design my own logos for the app or website on illustrator. I also want to make each of the flags in the “where are you from?” section a button that will tell the app or site where the user is from and then suggest food from their country or others if they want to explore other dishes. I want the user to also be able to see how foods are made differently in different countries through this. I also really need to figure out how to add the GPS feature so that the app or site so it can tell you where the restaurants are near the users location. I will also add a contact section that would bring the user to the app or websites Facebook or email. I think that this app could help people become closer with their cultures back home through the food. I also think this could help improve peoples mental health by eating really good food. I also believe this could help people eat healthier in a fun way. Emotionally the app or website will improve peoples emotional health when they are eating tasty healthy food and will give a sense of community to those who left their families back in south America. I want the app to grab the users attention long enough for them to read through a recipe, look at the ingredients and leave a review of what they made. All of the information on the app or website will be appropriate within the context of Latino food and it should all make sense to the user because it will be very strait forward. People will intend to make good Latino food and this app will guide their actions to complete that goal. People will be using this app to connect with their heritage back home or to explore new cultures through food. This app should be a good way to authentically connect with these cultures. This app will be a good way to navigate through these different cultures that helps the user develop more shared understanding on the food
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Sensory experience is cultural, social and material and it therefore acts as a powerful means of binding people together, or of highlighting their differences. Taste, in particular, is an emotionally charged marker of either familiarity and belonging, or strangeness and alienation. taste and its interrelated senses as a focus for exploring the construction of subjectivity in a context where racial differences are reproduced through everyday cultural practices such as cooking and eating. In Ecuador, where this ethnography is located, race is understood in terms of place and thus regional cuisines and their associated tastes and smells often become representative of a localised black, indigenous or mestizo culture. Drawing on Howes’ (2005) idea of ’emplacement,’ this study uses sensory experience to highlight the way in which identities are both discursively and materially constructed, and become embodied without becoming fixed. ( https://www.jstor.org/stable/25758085?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents ).
This article treats pre-1959 Cuban cookbooks as interlocutors to see how the struggle to define Cuba’s racial and national body can be found in efforts to characterize what goes into that body by setting a close textual analysis of the books alongside an account of their historical context. In examining recipes, visuals, and nonrecipe prose, this article explores how later authors attempt to represent Cuba as white and European by ignoring and trivializing the culinary contributions of nonwhite Cubans and particularly Afro-Cubans, a move that encounters resistance in the ongoing persistence and popularity of Afro-Cuban cuisine. As an interface between political economic processes and personal choice, the author argues that cookbooks act as a site for assertions of racial and national identity in which some authors embarked on a racial project to civilize the consumer by civilizing cuisine via the cookbook, thus illustrating social fissures, tensions, and contradictions that climaxed in the 1959 revolution. ( https://muse.jhu.edu/article/236952/summary )
Mexican writers of the twentieth century have often imagined cuisine to be a symbol of their national identity, a mestizo blend of Native American and Spanish influences. Salvador Novo, for example, a member of the Academia Mexicana de la Lengua and official chronicler of Mexico City, traced the beginnings of mestizaje to the “happy encounter” between corn tortillas and pork sausage that produced the first taco. The most common culinary metaphor for the Mexican nation was mole poblano (turkey in deep-brown sauce). Authors in the 1920s began attributing the origins of this dish to the convents of colonial Puebla, and in particular to Sor Andrea de la Asunción of the Dominican Santa Rosa cloister. About 1680 she supposedly combined seasonings from the Old World with chile peppers from the New in honor of Viceroy Tomás Antonio de la Cerda y Aragón. Mole thus represented Mexico’s “cosmic race,” created by divine inspiration and served up for the approval of the Spanish crown. ( https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/americas/article/tamales-or-timbales-cuisine-and-the-formation-of-mexican-national-identity-18211911/E23E5FC116CA245156DBBCFCD6E65CFB )
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the website https://www.bingingwithbabish.com/#top is a website dedicated to creating food from fiction. for instance their recipes include “white castle sliders inspired by harold and cumar”, “double glazed apple fritters inspired by the regular show” and “baked ziti inspired by the sopranos”. All of these recipes were shown on some sort of TV show or movie and that were then turned into reality by Andrew Rea is one part chef, one part filmmaker, and a generous dash of irreverent YouTube personality. Self-taught both behind and in front of the camera, his cooking show, Binging with Babish, is enjoyed by millions of burgeoning chefs and foodies around the globe. His passion for teaching and experimenting in the kitchen is rivaled only by his love of film and television, both of which he endeavors to share from his Harlem, NY kitchen. Along with his cooking videos he adds the recipe underneath and also adds all of the ingredients that would be needed to replicate his dishes. This has given me very good ideas on what I want my website to look like after I figure everything out for it. He also added a “like” and a “share” option at the bottom of each of the recipes so people can share them around and show love for them by rating them with a like or dislike. This is another aspect i will need to have in my website for my food. He has hundreds of recipes in his recipe section and i think that is a little much for peoeple to scroll through. He has a search bar so you can look up what you like but i think it would be a better idea to have a drop down menu with a few food categories that lead to different recipes. All and all i think that he has a great website and its designed very well so i will be able to use some of the good design to help develop mine but i also see places he need to improve that i will make on my site.
https://sethlui.com/ this is another website that I will refer to while designing mine. I like this websites approach at having good recipes on the site along with a nightlife section that shows you what kinds of drinks and nightlife is in the area. it shows drink and food prices that I really like along with the name of the place of where to get them and hours of operation. I really like how they added more than just food and recipes to their site and i may use this for some inspiration on my website. This website also goes into a lot more detail about the history of their food and why they put it on their site so now I am more inspired to share that information on mine also. I just need to figure out how to do that without showing too much information so the user is overwhelmed.
https://aforkandapencil.com/ is another recipe website that i was able to find that focuses on bringing joy tho home cooks that want to make something amazing for the people they love. they have a newsletter you can sign up for via email that I think would be great for my site to also have. I also like their section that is titled Week night Winners because they are quick and easy recipes that you can make in under 30 minutes. I really enjoy this section because i had a similar on eon my app prototype but i wan to bring that to my website.
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