Culturally Appropriate Foods Zine

Keywords & helpful language

CULTURALLY APPROPRIATE FOOD:

Foods, preparation methods, and eating rituals tied directly to a particular community's history, heritage, and geography.

FOOD SOVEREIGNTY:

the right of peoples to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through ecologically sound and sustainable methods, and their right to define their own food and agriculture systems. (La Via Campesina)

FOODWAYS:

Activities, attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors associated with the food in your daily life.

Solutions

to challenge good food/bad food dichotomies

SURVEYING!

Key Example: Norma Guardado created h country of origin that the groups will likely enjoy, foods they may pass up, common dishes, cultural considerations (such as languages and cultural influences on cuisine), and key traditions

SURVEYING! Example Questions

What are the most important kinds of meat,

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arting an Adopt-a-Family Program offering bundles “featuring foods our guests specifically told us they WANT for the holidays”

“It has not only allowed us to serve our community better, but it has built new relationships with suppliers who specialize in these culturally relevant products” (long island cares)

Collaborate with farms growing culturally appropriate produce

Key Example:

Nuestras Raíces (Holyoke, MA)

“Our 30-acre urban farm supports 10-15 small farm business tenants who are all Latino, low/moderate income, and who cultivate and sell cultural crops favored by the community”

Recao

Ají dulces

Celeriac

Calabaza & Kabocha squash

Tomatillos

Variety of hot peppers

Swiss chard

Asian pears

Kohlrabi

Collards

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